Grab a plot grow an allotment!

Ah ha.  Today we're being told by The Daily Telegraph - 23/8/112 - that our Government may be about to make a huge amount of new allotments available.

"Wow, I mean, really wow.  That's just great, don't you think?" 

With this year's deplorably wet and cold summer, we're being told already about more expensive veggies, depleted stocks in our shops and a general lack of availability of fresh produce.

So let's get to it and grow and then we'll be ok, right, well, think again.  Growing things need space, time, tools and manure and a garden or allotment.  And then some sunshine, a little rain, and a growing season for your baby vegetables to sprout and grow.

Now if these new allotments are going to be coming our way, that's fine, but when?  I mean if not until next year, how are we going to grow the veg we need to grow for this year, to alleviate the lack that's been forecast for this year, if we are without good friable earth to dig ?  Where's the space to come from, if you've not a large garden, or family with ground to spare or a very large window box for your baby seedlings, hey?

I've looked into this very question and came up with the idea of growing my veg in those huge, canvas sacks used by builders' firms and supply merchants to deliver sand and such like, and these could certainly provide a  sizeable growing plot for your green fingers to explore.  And I don't think they are too costly; and they certainly don't take up so very much space on which to sit!

So perhaps that's what we should all use until such time as these new allotments come our way?

On another green thought, have you heard of the Guerrilla Gardeners who go about cultivating plots here and there, growing herbs and sunflowers, and then gathering other people about them, organising the everything into a  whole, and then  a blog and a website?

Well, they're out there somewhere.  I don't know if they're into growing vegs, but they're pages look interesting and they encourage feedback, so check them out and see what's growing, beyond your own garden space.

"Dig that earth, man!"

Byeeeeee .....from me, Daisy.