Allotments

Nina, that's dedication. Mind you I do begrudge life spent not gardening.
I have a whole plot, inherited from my daughter. Takes me 15 mins to walk there or 10 if I cycle. Usually my best crop is the blackberries that grow wild. Also have lots of fruit trees.
I am always thinking " now, should I give it up ?" But haven't yet.
If everything was really looked after, I would have a wide variety of produce.
I wonder if any GNS locally would be interested in sharing it with me?

That’s dedication with a capital D, nina!

H has been sharing a plot with a female friend of ours for 3 yrs now. He does the heavy work and so far it has just been Sunday mornings (4hrs) though she does have a rotavator which is a big help she buys seed etc and they share the produce.
However, he has just aquired his own plot and will continue to help our friend so next spring he will be there all day probably No good suggesting I join him as I'm not fit enough.
This is on top of the 4 half days he does paid gardening from March-October and keeping our own fairly large garden looking lovely.

We had one back in the eighties when we were younger and fitter. We could have done with it being about half the size it was. We loved it, but they do take up an awful lot of your time, and back then, DH was still in the Army and only home at the weekend. I would go down some mornings before I went to work, and in the evenings to water. One of the worst problems we had was that half the allotment was heavy clay, and no amount of digging stuff into it, and growing spuds in it, seemed to make it any better. Fortunately the rest of it was very fertile. As for couch grass, the only way is to dig dig dig it out, I think. When I went over to working full time, we gave it up because we just didn’t have the time for it, but I still love to see a good allotment. It is a thing of joy!