Wight Weirdos » allotment http://wightweirdos.co.uk/ww The Gibson Family Blog, also incorporating Maybe it Mutters Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:49:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Farmer Giles (or Oi bee an allarrrtment ‘older) http://wightweirdos.co.uk/ww/2007/02/farmer-giles-or-oi-bee-an-allarrrtment-older/ http://wightweirdos.co.uk/ww/2007/02/farmer-giles-or-oi-bee-an-allarrrtment-older/#comments Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:34:00 +0000 Martin http://wightweirdos.co.uk/ww/2007/02/farmer-giles-or-oi-bee-an-allarrrtment-older/ I have become an allotment holder! Well not quite, I have just started sharing an allotment with a friend. So, I have a year of hard work but hopefully lots of nice tasty veg. My garden is the size of a postage stamp, and I manage to grow a surprising amount on it, but it’s just too small for serious growing. Looking forward to this, though my back isn’t!

On Sat DS (age nearly 5) and I started work on the allotment with Andrew. About an hour in DS suddenly says “why are you talking like Farmer Giles?” Hmm…. talking like a son of the soil after just an hour, I must be a natural!

What really amazed me was how cheap it is to rent an allotment. £21 for a standard plot. About what I expected per month. But no, that’s the annual plot fee! I think that’s great, and rather democratic. Us paupers can still farm our little bit of England’s green and pleasant at a very modest cost. Long may it continue!

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