Here is the monthly photo looking up the allotment. Today's visit was the first for a month due to health reasons so it will have to do for August and September. The runner beans have finished cropping, the potatoes have been lifted and the wallflower plants in the foreground are nearly ready to be moved back home. We have started picking the apples (out of shot) with a view to making cider next month.

#Allotment #allotments #beans #vegetables #gardening #garden #apples #cider

Here is the monthly photo looking up the allotment. Today's visit was the first for a month due to health reasons so it will have to do for August and September. The runner beans have finished cropping, the potatoes have been lifted and the wallflower plants in the foreground are nearly ready to be moved back home. We have started picking the apples (out of shot) with a view to making cider next month.

#Allotment #allotments #beans #vegetables #gardening #garden #apples #cider

We now have a dedicated group.

Follow @allotments

If anyone mentions the address in a post, it will be boosted to everyone who follows the Group.

Public posts and replies are boosted.

Presumably we will be able to customise the profile and banner for the group if anyone has any pictures that they are happy to be used.

We now have a dedicated group.

Follow @allotments

If anyone mentions the address in a post, it will be boosted to everyone who follows the Group.

Public posts and replies are boosted.

Presumably we will be able to customise the profile and banner for the group if anyone has any pictures that they are happy to be used.

I see greenwashing, nature destroying, venture capitalists Roots allotments are in the news again, this time destroying meadows in the South Downs National Park. Again ignoring planning laws and objections by locals. Yes, we need more allotments, but not the type that have regularly destroyed ancient meadows. I make no apologies for again calling on Charles Dowding to disassociate himself from this company.
#allotments
#Greenwashing

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89005jppl7o

"With huge waiting lists, public demand for allotments is clear. What’s needed now is political will, and an ability to reimagine cities not just as places to live and work, but as places to grow.

Because as Corbyn warned: once these spaces are lost, they’re rarely replaced"

#Allotments #Gardening #Nature #Food

Allotments are vanishing when the UK urgently needs more of them
https://theconversation.com/allotments-are-vanishing-when-the-uk-urgently-needs-more-of-them-262844