We've been warned to wash hands after handling the padlock and those with livestock to make sure that they or someone else looks after them. Apart from that it's only that the site shop won't be opening and the annual committee meeting has been cancelled and the committee will carry on until a new one can be elected.
Our allotment ass is changing the rent structure to 14p per sq metre , this is because we have so many odd sized allotments , at least it’s fair Mines 407 mt and costs £56-98 , previous rent £55 , rent due 28th March . All ready paid it as we where going to be on Holiday , now cancelled We are a private site owned by a local farmer and we have got rid of the site agent and the allotment committee is now the site agent , much better Hoping to go there Monday , looks like this is the time to get all the jobs done 😉
They have now shut the toilets so can't use them because of the virus, did notice yesterday in our car park scalpings pile
Toilets!? Car park!? We’ve got a gate with a lock on it and that’s it! 😄 1 hour restricted on road parking.
Went yesterday and dropped off some bags of compost and my propagators and seed trays - put up the shelves/staging in the Polytunnel. Cheap sort from amazon but feels very sturdy after attaching to the Polytunnel frame. Did some weeding inside and put cardboard down.
Last time I built a potting bench out of free wardrobe sides I picked up from Ikea which has gone in the shed.
Started tidying the shed but I need to do a major clear out and must take a dustpan and brush next time I go. Lots of glass and general crud on the floor.
Thirteen weeks to the summer solstice time to get sowing and growing folks. Someone posted that we put the clocks forward next weekend pity we cant put them forward four months, that's a bit over the top don't you think.
Allotment today sowed three rows of potatoes, Charlotte I think, this is the first year that I haven't labelled the seed potatoes after all Desiree red potato tubers looks very different to Charlotte tubers don't they? Not when they have chitted they all looked the same, never mind worse things have happened at sea. The allotment site was very busy loads of over 70's, some folk with kids just like a bank holiday. I want to get the rest of the spuds in the ground before the end of the week and hope that the government don't stop people travelling more than a quarter of a mile or I won't be able to go to the plot again.
This is important info and advice for allotment site committees and allotmenteers, especially if you have livestock such as hens or feed stray cats to keep the mice down
Thanks for that Obelixx the government has just instigated a complete lockdown so I guess the allotment is a no go area for a few weeks at least.
Youre allowed to leave the house for one exercise activity a day by yourself or with members of your household but gatherings will be dispersed.
Id say that going to the allotment would count as the former - plenty of social distance and it’s exercise. It’ll be down to individual councils I suppose to decide whether to close them.
I was there today and didn't come within 20 meters of anyone else apart from cycling home a lady on the path was less than 2 meters, the trouble is If I go to the allotment it will be for several hours and if fifty or sixty others turn up who's to say that those are following the rules, in fact that's why we have a lockdown because people can't be trusted.
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Mines 407 mt and costs £56-98 , previous rent £55 , rent due 28th March . All ready paid it as we where going to be on Holiday , now cancelled
We are a private site owned by a local farmer and we have got rid of the site agent and the allotment committee is now the site agent , much better
Hoping to go there Monday , looks like this is the time to get all the jobs done 😉
Toilets!? Car park!? We’ve got a gate with a lock on it and that’s it! 😄
1 hour restricted on road parking.
Went yesterday and dropped off some bags of compost and my propagators and seed trays - put up the shelves/staging in the Polytunnel. Cheap sort from amazon but feels very sturdy after attaching to the Polytunnel frame. Did some weeding inside and put cardboard down.
Last time I built a potting bench out of free wardrobe sides I picked up from Ikea which has gone in the shed.
Started tidying the shed but I need to do a major clear out and must take a dustpan and brush next time I go. Lots of glass and general crud on the floor.
https://www.nsalg.org.uk/news/covid19-information/?fbclid=IwAR3d-HHSUnYYVp8za3P9Ny1DUCfQSLCkiDB9WVON7M3fWbr56_X5fo3HHhs
Youre allowed to leave the house for one exercise activity a day by yourself or with members of your household but gatherings will be dispersed.
Id say that going to the allotment would count as the former - plenty of social distance and it’s exercise. It’ll be down to individual councils I suppose to decide whether to close them.