Your plot: cheap and cheerful? Or POSH?

council delivery of woodchip

Now that is posh, wallpapering your allotment shed...

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Ian A.... well done  - thats my approach. get as much done for as little money spent.. after-all we grow veg to save money and enjoy the open fresh air!! There's no point of spending a fortune on special raised beds when a few free pallets can do the same job albeit for a lesser time but free pallets are replaceable..

I do love making stuff from pallets - there is something very satisfying about getting praised for something - only for you to reveal that you fabric'd it from pallets!  I am currently planning to make a child-sized bench plus gates for my pallet picket fence!

Poundland is also my friend 

  

Growster: Aah, sounds a great idea (I secretly fancied a bit of guerilla allotment clearing to be honest - it appeals to my militant gardening side!)  but sadly we would apparently fall foul to the 'elf n safety brigade - apparently, their public liability doesn't cover us.  In fact it was suggested we would be trespassing.  I question if this is correct bearing in mind these are statutory sites but I am not going to push it.

I tried to start a Hastings allotment campaign about two years ago.  I approached the local allotment forum for support but they couldn't offer any assistance other than initially letting me know the story with regard to these sites.  I also tried to get the people on the waiting list to contact me so I could raise the profile but almost all except one or two refused to get involved in case they jeopardised their queue position! 

I have even offered to try to apply for grants to get the work done!  I am fairly well practised having successfully got the £10m Heritage Lottery money for the Pier!  My offer was politely declined.

I am instead concentrating on raising the funds to get a composting toilet block installed on our site instead.

Well the rain has finally arrived here with a vengeance!  This reminds me that we must get on with setting up our other water butt and freecycle-sourced guttering for the greenhouse!

"composting toilet block installed on our site instead."

Much better option Angela!

HBC can be so intransigent, but well done you for getting some funding for the pier. I saw 'The Move' there in 1967...;0)

And we always wandered down to 'The Pump House' when we had a few bob...

Happy days, and to keep the thread, nowhere near posh - that was for the restaurants in Claremont all those years ago...

Mine is productive, passes the two committee inspections each year and definitely isn't posh. It's tidy, doesn't suffer from rows and rows of crops with no flowers anywhere and no weeds but it does look full come August when the second inspection happens.

I can't say that it might never rise to being posh as all spare money has gone into getting the soil back into productive for the last five years. Thing is - there is a large, raised concrete hard standing down the middle so it's never going to be proper posh.

Erm long ago in the days when the council let cowboys onto the allotments, mine was used as a repair garage facility. Hence the hard standing. Better than the complete Ford Prefect the present secretary found buried on his plot about 35-40 years back I suppose.

There is an allotment association to run things now so legends are fewer. They are more of the nature of someone weeding with sodium chlorate then wondering why nothing grew.