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#allotments

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Havoc BSc MSc

Beyond individual benefits, allotments play a crucial role in promoting biodiversity and countering urban pollution. They act as critical carbon sinks and provide habitats for wildlife, further emphasizing their importance in battling climate change. To sell them off for short-term financial gains overlooks the broader environmental and societal drawbacks.
#allotments #SaveOurAllotments #SaveAllotments #growyourown #allotmentlife
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Change.orgCan you spare a minute to help this campaign?Protect Allotment Lands from Council Sales
elbowcrooker

When we plant our potatoes at the allotment in March/April there are always a few small tubers left over. These we plant in large pots at home, 3 or 4 per pot. The tops of these plants start to die back early August, indicating that the tubers won't get any bigger.
The variety in the foreground is Acoustic and the ones to the rear are Wilja. Both very tasty '2nd early' types.
The growing medium is just compost from our compost heap.

JuneSim63

"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
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The ConversationAllotments are vanishing when the UK urgently needs more of them
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Hesperalis

Late July and early August has been very busy on the allotment. Yesterday I picked my first ever grapes. They are sweet but unfortunately small. Note for next time, sacrifice 50% of the bunches in the hope that the remainder reaching a decent size. I've made grape, plum and cardamom jelly with half, and I think I will juice the rest and add to elderflower cordial and sparkling water.
#allotments
#gardening

Pablo Martini (Geezer)

What counts as “clearly necessary”? That’s what Angela Rayner’s Ministry is saying about eight allotment site sales — but campaigners aren’t buying it.

Jeremy Corbyn has slammed the move as a betrayal of green spaces and working-class self-sufficiency.

The MHCLG says the rules haven’t changed. But maybe that’s the problem.

#Allotments #AngelaRayner #JeremyCorbyn #LabourPolicy #HousingVsGreenspace #VoxPolitical
voxpoliticalonline.com/?p=99738

Vox Political · ‘The battle for the grass roots is on’: Corbyn slams Labour over allotment salesBy Mike Sivier
Pablo Martini (Geezer)

Wednesday headlines: Jeremy Corbyn has launched a fierce critique of Angela Rayner over the decision to sell off eight community allotment sites.

In a passionate defence of green space and working-class access to land, he accuses Labour of forgetting its roots — literally.

Catch up now before your lunch break ends. 🌿

#Corbyn #AngelaRayner #Allotments #LabourPolicy #GreenSpaces #VoxPolitical
voxpoliticalonline.com/?p=9971

Vox Political · ‘The battle for the grass roots is on’: Corbyn slams Labour over allotment salesBy Mike Sivier
Hesperalis

The swifts have gone. The year moves on. Allotment plot jobs consist of collecting in the harvest and processing produce. Today will be a jam making day using our cherries and the plums from a plot neighbours tree. I'm not doing a lot of succession sowing as I want to make sure I plant a lot of cover crops this year. Still lots to come. The courgettes are relentless as are the runners. The cabbages are left asking to be picked but who wants to eat cabbage when tomatoes are calling.
#allotments

elbowcrooker

View up the allotment, end of July 2025.
The broad beans and peas are finished and have been cleared. We've started setting out our young wallflower plants in the resultant gap. These are moved to the beds at home at the end of October and will flower April/May time alongside the tulips.
The runner beans are cropping heavily and we have started to lift the second-early potatoes.
The sweet peas have finished but they were good while they lasted.

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pete *doesn't think*

@RolloTreadway I've made movable large cloches using water pipe and plastic sheeting and I gradually raise them up on posts as the tomatoes grow. This has meant I can grow them in most years and helps keep then blight away later. Although this year everything has been so easy to grow it's like being on a TV program like gardeners world where they say you just throw seed in the ground and soon you'll have full plants and food to eat with no problems or effort. Amazing how many people turn up as newbie allotmenteers thinking that, whereas the reality is below minimum wage full time work ( is no wage ) with lots of things trying to steal it from you if you do manage to get things to grow. This year we've had the new one of having a fox litter playing and stealing stuff

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