Hi there! My name is Jamie, and I've just recently started growing my own vegetables (potatoes and onions, mainly, but with a view to planting more variety in the future!)
I stay in Whitburn, Scotland, and I joined here with the view of seeing if West Lothian council had any allotments available in the area, which, sadly, they do not. I was wondering if anyone could offer any advice about anything else that's available in this area? Or, even better, if someone would be willing to share/rent out part of their land to me? I'm really keen to grow more vegetables, but due to space constraints in the back garden, I'm really limited.
It seems like a really friendly community here, and I look forward to reading/sharing ideas with you all!
Jamie
Jamie, did you get your name down on the waiting list/
i had similar probs to you and ended up going down to the allotments near to me and finding out who was controlling/ overseeing on the ground so to speak .
I then befriended him popped down most saturdays and sundays when he was usually around and eventually asked him what was available and how could I apply for it. Either I was plain lucky or he had some influnce for I ended up with two adjacent allotments right next to his.
At another place , another time I shared a persons garden ,.
Spent ages and a shed load of money seeds etc to clear a plot 80 feet long by 70 feet wide of brambles le,nettles , thistles docks and horse radish . oveer the first year I got it well manured and under crop . They stole no end of stuff and as soon as I moved to a new house a 1/2 mike away took everything that was ready despite me asking if it was Ok &b them agreeing for me to carry on with it from my new home for another year.
In the end my future wife said , " Let's go and lift all the new spuds and fill the freezer with as much as we can for this stealing is not on ". So we spent a glorious July weekend doing just that and handed it back devoid of almost every plant or fruit shrub.
Antother time we rented a plot and as the end of the second year ( June ) came up the guy said he'd have to say sorry ..as he was putting his house up for sale includjng the land .
We left it under full crop and the bugger was still there ten years later with it back to weeds again.
Evidently he'd told his neighbours we were havimg to move away from the area due to new jobs and that's why we left it under crops.
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