"Ed" wrote ...
Got my new shed now on the allotment and am well pleased with it and use
it to store my tools (spade, fork, hoe, rake, etc.) and all the other
small bits and pieces that are essential for gardening work.

But should I lock the shed door with the key when I leave? Or just leave
it unlocked with the wheelbarrow upturned against it?

What do people here usually do?


I won't have a shed on our plot, they are attractants for thieves and
vandals. It worries me that all the new gardeners on our site seem to think
a shed is essential on an allotment, there was only one before, I know we
will get trouble soon.
Personally I would leave it unlocked as otherwise it will get broken/smashed
into and badly damaged (or even be pushed over, seen that too). The tools
may not be worth much but anything is enough.

Our shed is a 1986 Defender van, another "old" gardener has a decent trailer
so nothing, tool wise, is left on the plots.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
just W. of London