On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:50:35 +0100, Jake Nospam@invalid wrote:


Having been taken to the proverbial cleaners by a so-called (now
former) friend this year, I would never enter into any shared
allotment arrangement ever, ever again. Possibly splitting an
allotment in half and two people taking a half each is ok but working
one together is a potential disaster in my experience.

Having put in 50% of the seed cost (plus a load of strawberry runners)
and 75%+ of the labour, I got less than 20% of the harvest. To cap it
all, having paid half the rent I found the other week that he'd
negotiated half rent for this year because the plot hadn't been worked
for ages and needed a lot of clearing (which I did). So I paid all the
b****y rent as well!!!

He paid the rent for the next 12 months at the beginning of October
and then asked me for half. I told him where to go. The Secretary
thinks he'll either give up the plot when he has to work it on his own
or will not keep it up to standard and be chucked off. In either
event, that plot will be mine. Otherwise, I'm on the waiting list.

Fingers crossed.


Fingers crossed for you too


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