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Yorkshire
Yorkshire and parts of Humberside
REPRESENTATIVE
Mike Farrell
Based in Rotherham 07802 196 688 mfarrell.nas@gmail.com
MENTOR
Tony Urwin
Yorkshire & Humberside 0845 250 1292 turwin.nas@gmail.com
Yorkshire Ramblings (via Rotherham)
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The good people on Hartley Lane Allotments seem pleased to see their new car park given national coverage, and I have been asked for extra copies of the magazine, but as yet not been asked to autograph any. I was asked
to visit a nearby direct managed site about a hedge related matter and have looked around and spoken to a couple of plotholders.
It reinforced my view that self- management is the best way to run a site. The site was unloved and the plots not much better, and many were derelict or unlet which, in my experience, tends to suck away enthusiasm from the majority of the plotholders.
As I was leaving the site, a man was coming in and I engaged him in conversation. He told me he did not have a plot but was helping out a pal. He then walked away with a pack of Stella under his arm. It seems more pals turned up, and drink was consumed
by all. Later, as they were leaving, they tried to attract the attention of a solitary lady gardener with shouts and comments, which she ignored.
When I learnt of this, I informed
the local Allotment Officer and was disappointed with the reply that in “normal times they don’t specifically have an issue with people socialising on plots.” All I can say is that it would be an issue on any of the self-managed
Is there such a thing as too much tolerance?
plots I know of, and rightly so in my view. Is there such a thing as too much tolerance?
I seem to have had an adversarial
run of events lately, what with the council trying to ban cars from parking on allotment land, letting trees get dangerously big and saying they cannot afford to pollard them, and many other irritable niggles. I sometimes wonder if the weather or the moon or time of year have any relevance/significance.
Keep smiling, and I wish you all the best.
Mike Farrell
Welcome to our new members...
Apperley Bridge Allotment Garden Broughton Road Allotment Association Daisy Hill Allotments
Vicarage Fields Allotment Society Whitley Village Allotment Association 5 Individuals
Brafferton & Helperby Parish Council Clayton Parish Council
Stainland and District Parish Council
Unbelievable!
You may have read a short piece I submitted for the last magazine: ‘The perpetual cauliflower’ was about how the leftover ‘Maystar’ cauliflower plants planted in the spring of 2019 were still producing curds way into August 2020 in my unheated polytunnel.
Well, it is quite unbelievable, but they are still continuing to produce curds way into November 2020 (photograph) and there are another three curds forming. These latter plants are all growing from the side of the stalks of previously harvested curds.
Perhaps that’s why ‘Maystar’ is no longer available, perhaps they just keep reproducing. I can always hope.
Phil Gomersall, Victory Garden AA
44 Allotment and Leisure Gardener