18-06-2009, 11:23 AM
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Slugs - cut nettles ?
Bertie Doe wrote:
"Derek Turner" wrote in message
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On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:59:42 +0100, Bertie Doe wrote:
There are masses
of nettles on the unused allotments, behind the house.
Unused allotments!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Out of the 20 allotments, 5 are unused/overgrown. I own one and rent
half of another with a neighbour. Our row of terraced houses were
built in 1842 for miners (tin, copper and stone quarries). Each house
had its own 120' x 15' allotment plus at the end of each back garden
had a piggery. Nowadays, some people buy the house but don't want to
buy the allotment, so this sometimes gets sold separately to someone
in the nearby village (Liskeard)
One of my neighbours, overtime has purchased an additional 3
allotments and rents another (rotavator job). Sadly most of the
piggeries have gone and have become garages or hard-standings. Last
September there were 3, but the best of the 3 (pictures 1 and 2) has
now been demolished.
http://s222.photobucket.com/albums/d...t=f0bbadc3.pbw
What a shame to destroy them 
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