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!

janet
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
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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!!!)


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jane

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

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"jane" wrote in message
...
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

In article , jane
writes
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?

Not it can't be, one side is the railway embankment and there's nowhere
to cross! Are you thinking of the one down rectory hill which does have
a footpath through it and is quite close to the main road. This one is
next to the cricket ground behind the houses on Woodside road and I know
the people at the allotments and I ma sure there isn't a waiting list.

Janet
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

On Mon, 3 May 2004 21:38:28 +0100, Janet Tweedy
wrote:

~In article , jane
writes
~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?
~
~Not it can't be, one side is the railway embankment and there's nowhere
~to cross! Are you thinking of the one down rectory hill which does have
~a footpath through it and is quite close to the main road. This one is
~next to the cricket ground behind the houses on Woodside road and I know
~the people at the allotments and I ma sure there isn't a waiting list.
~

Odd. Wonder why they said there was? shrug

Half our problems are because the vacant plots have, almost without
exception, been vacant for years and are therefore solid grass. People
take one look and run. I guess I didn't help when I bagged a second
half plot which had only just been given up. (Darn thing's covered
with groundsel even so). We keep begging the council to send in a
tractor and plough the vacants but as usual the cost gets them.

But then again, after a few years of fallow, the vacant ones won't
have any lingering chemicals and will probably be perfect for organic
growing.

Now if it would just stop raining...

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

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In article , jane
writes

But then again, after a few years of fallow, the vacant ones won't
have any lingering chemicals and will probably be perfect for organic
growing.


Perhaps you could get a load of old carpets and lay them down, make the
allotments an outside room as the television designers are wont to say


I've passed on your comments to Susan who runs the Allotment Hut to see
whether she is any the wiser about eh mix up. Pity there is no central
place t collect data on unused allotments ..........



Now if it would just stop raining...


Then it would be drought I guess

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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk