[Paul Plots]

Hope you can keep up with the weeds on four plots. We find three can be difficult  :blink:

Never mind the weeds... what about all the structural repairs, painting and window cleaning. I've seen smaller villages in some parts. 

[stickmeup]

Im quite handy with the old DIY, and have great friends and family who are always willing to pitch in if I need help

[Paul Plots]

What on earth will you do with all that space?

[stickmeup]

The bigger building will become a lounge/kitchen/play room for the kids, the smaller building will be for storage of tools and equipment, stuff i need to keep dry etc, got some decking down the bottom for bbq's etc and then as much as possible will be crammed with fruit and veg along with the 2 greenhouses

[Paul Plots]

Sonds as if you have your weekends ear-marked for quite some time to come. 

[stickmeup]

and evenings during the summer lol, my 3 young kids and wife love it so it's nice that we spend time as a family up there together

[Yana]

and evenings during the summer lol, my 3 young kids and wife love it so it's nice that we spend time as a family up there together

I am so envious of you........and whilst everyone agrees that you have a lot of work ahead of you, involving the children and making it a family thing is brilliant. Looks forward to reading about your progress.

[TREGRAHOW]

Questions, questions, questions!!! Are you sure your palace is on an allotment site? If you're the only one growing anything what the hell do the rest of them do and why is it still called an allotment site? What exactly is a "pigeon site"? Did you miss the aitch out? Finally, if you Google "Sheds with Beds" you can work out roughly what you can charge.

[CDave]

Questions, questions, questions!!! Are you sure your palace is on an allotment site? If you're the only one growing anything what the hell do the rest of them do and why is it still called an allotment site? What exactly is a "pigeon site"? Did you miss the aitch out? Finally, if you Google "Sheds with Beds" you can work out roughly what you can charge.

A pigeon site in the NE of England is a site that has a pre-dominance of pigeon fanciers. We have pigeon sites in Sunderland that usually - but not always have very few plot holders that grow stuff. Instead, their plot is home to their pigeon lofts. I can see the sense in the arrangement as I personally wouldn't want pigeon lofts on our site. On plot holder is causing all kinds of problems with his white pigeons (sorry doves!). So - are pigeon sites allotment sites then? Well you tell me!   

[stickmeup]

Exactly that CDave

The site which holds around 30 odd plots is basically owned by people who keep, and race pigeons.  There is only one main 'growing' garden which is ours, but a few people are starting to use spare space and get some veg in, not quite to the scale we have though.  No issues with it being a pigeon site, they are either in their lofts, or they are out flying (so not eating our veg) but we are right next to a park which has a lot of wood pigeons so we take the usual precautions with netting etc.

I suppose pigeon sites arent allotment sites, unless like us, you have 1 growing garden in the middle of it, luckily this meant there was no waiting list, so we were straight in, also the reason we have been able to expand up to 4 plots so easily

Plenty of work has been going on, and will continue to do so over the next couple of weeks/months/years lol

sorted some entertainment for the kids


Wondered why my lil man was quiet all of a sudden


Decking is looking good after a lick of treatment


Greenhouse is finally up

[stickmeup]

Well, work is well and truly underway with the new building

Before



After



Before



After



and from inside

Before



After



New to do list

[Trillium]

You've definitely put some hard graft into the buildings. Well done. Look forward to seeing the comparisons by next year 

[stickmeup]

Just picked up the kitchen last night   Need some work doing before it gets fitted, including fitting the pvc window in that wall

[Sweetpea C]

you could turn that into a holiday let at the rate you are going!

[stickmeup]

Shhhhhhhhh. Dont tell the council, lol