I might give up gardening

[Borchester]

Having an allotment isnt gardening ,its farming .  Gardening is what you do when the Mrs brings £ 19.99 worth of  pansies and labella home from the garden centre and you knock up a couple of hanging baskets .

There is something in what you say. On the other hand, if you head off for the allotment to avoid all those, "can you just," moments the womenfolk are so fond of, then working the plot is not so bad. Plus, if you hang a few baskets of trailing lobelia from the fruit trees and make a tea out of the (lobelia) flowers, not only can spend many a happy hour pleasantly zonked on of your head, the lasses might well have changed their minds.

[Streetwalker]

Having an allotment isnt gardening ,its farming .  Gardening is what you do when the Mrs brings £ 19.99 worth of  pansies and labella home from the garden centre and you knock up a couple of hanging baskets .

[Borchester]

The simple fact is not many twentysomethings have an allotment, digging one (with hand tools) is exactly how you get a cardiac event and therefore yes ALLOTMENT gardening is on a par with skydiving ...


The chairman of the allotment society nearest my local told me this. Prior to retiring he was an actuary for an insurance company. I presume therefore he knows what he's on about

I suspect that you are right. On the other hand, the allotment site has acquired a number of East European families with kids eager to earn a few bob. So maybe I will compromise. I will hire the youngsters to do the donkey work while I sit under the fruit trees drinking coffee.

[johnofgwent]

The simple fact is not many twentysomethings have an allotment, digging one (with hand tools) is exactly how you get a cardiac event and therefore yes ALLOTMENT gardening is on a par with skydiving ...


The chairman of the allotment society nearest my local told me this. Prior to retiring he was an actuary for an insurance company. I presume therefore he knows what he's on about

[Borchester]

I went up to the allotment this morning and found that it was full of police and ambulances. Apparently someone had been there earlier, gotten into his car, had a heart attack and ended up driving into the gates.

That makes it the forth fatality this year. One a month. Twelve a year. With less than 170 allotment holders that means the average life of an allotment holder is 14 years.

I reckon that I can take this Chinese flu in my stride, but gardening is getting bloody dangerous