I've just watched a report on the BBC News that there is up to a 40-year wait for an allotment in one borough of London, Camden. We joined the waiting list in Hounslow a month or two ago, but even in our borough the waiting list is eight years long. In an optimistic mood I fantasise that by 2017 we'll have been able to buy a house with enough of a garden to have a full Jurassic Park and a vegetable patch.
So it's just as well in the meantime that we've got this:
It's a little vegetable patch at Hubster's Quaker Meeting House. What an opportunity! The gardener has offered us a fairly square deep patch which will be ideal for Hubster to grow some medicinal herbs (bloody James Wong), and it has some teasels and evening primrose already in residence. There are a couple of thinner plots, and I have great plans. I did like having my own potatoes. It was just so much effort doing them in containers so I gave it a break this year.
Here's a quick plan of the site:
Hubster was drinking his coffee and contemplating the "fruit" bed. Behind him is his big herb bed, and it continues right along to where the nursery that uses the faciities has a little patch.
There's another plot the size of the "fruit" bed which has loads of Jerusalem artichokes already on there. If I can figure out what to do with them, I'll add them to my veggie repertoire!
What have I let myself in for?
So it's just as well in the meantime that we've got this:
It's a little vegetable patch at Hubster's Quaker Meeting House. What an opportunity! The gardener has offered us a fairly square deep patch which will be ideal for Hubster to grow some medicinal herbs (bloody James Wong), and it has some teasels and evening primrose already in residence. There are a couple of thinner plots, and I have great plans. I did like having my own potatoes. It was just so much effort doing them in containers so I gave it a break this year.
Here's a quick plan of the site:
Hubster was drinking his coffee and contemplating the "fruit" bed. Behind him is his big herb bed, and it continues right along to where the nursery that uses the faciities has a little patch.
There's another plot the size of the "fruit" bed which has loads of Jerusalem artichokes already on there. If I can figure out what to do with them, I'll add them to my veggie repertoire!
What have I let myself in for?
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