"jane" wrote in message
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On Sun, 2 May 2004 11:25:14 +0100, Janet Tweedy
wrote:

~Here in Amersham only three or four plots are now being worked on avery
~pleasant allotment site off Woodside road.
~If anyone wants to start growing their own fruit and veg or whatever
~then they ought to apply to the Town Council and they'll find they have
~a pick of the free sites!
~It's well bordered by houses and isn't in a particularly vandal crazed
~area and has its own hut and supplies so do apply if only so that the
~site isn't sold off as under used.
~For some reason the free sites aren't widely advertised in the local
~press or paper!

Hi Janet
Is this the site which has a public footpath running through it?

If it is, then at the Chesham Allotments meeting the other week,
someone from the Amersham Allotments stood up and said that their
council moves people from the one with the footpath to the two other,
more secure sites when a plot becomes available. They also said there
was a waiting list for the other two sites.

Chesham too has lots of spare plots (at £10 or £20 a year) at the two
main sites, if anyone is interested. Nice, easy to work soil on a bit
of a slope, but south facing and with standpipes (but no loos). We
have trouble getting folk interested. That's the problem with a
dormitory commuter town. Folk get back late from the City and don't
have time to do the watering etc.

(And who then pay through the nose for gym membership!!!)


--
jane

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone,
you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

Please remove onmaps from replies, thanks!


crazy isnt it ......there are some areas with allotment vacancies and others
with no allotments at all never mind vacancies

My son in law and a friend are desperate for an allotment but sadly Chesham
and Amersham are too far away