I put a veranda on the shed
Lacking confidence in my ability - never my commitment or enthusiasm - to grow food rather than buy it from shops, I think I need a sort of refuge and a base, thus in winter, unlike some gardeners who have concentrated entirely on growing and only setting up structures - such as polytunnels that support that proper goal, I seem to have given disproportionate attention to our shed, having now added a veranda.
democracystreet.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-had-reply-from-pip...
I'm proud of it. it's sturdy, well water proofed and I imagine myself sitting below it, Oscar dog beside me, on a day of pouring rain with a thermos of tea, strengthening myself for the work of growing things.
On the right of this picture, taken on 28 Dec'11 is the frame of a polytunnel that comes from a plot, we suspect, at least a hundred yards away, blown down the VJA site by strong winds earlier in the month.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2Iy2RGHocw
www.youtube.com/watch?v=msTl0S0sPLM
Over many years I and many other local people, with support from across the UK, campaigned to prevent the selling off of the old Victoria Jubilee Allotment (VJA) site for private housing. Instead of building over the whole site the city council as a result of constant lobbying negotiated a S106 Agreement that kept housing on a third of the site and brought about the restored VJA - 80 plots - the largest new public allotment site in the UK since WW2.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMymGBDEk4I
vimeo.com/_flickr/auth.php?frob=72157628604232389-63bc982...
I put a veranda on the shed
Lacking confidence in my ability - never my commitment or enthusiasm - to grow food rather than buy it from shops, I think I need a sort of refuge and a base, thus in winter, unlike some gardeners who have concentrated entirely on growing and only setting up structures - such as polytunnels that support that proper goal, I seem to have given disproportionate attention to our shed, having now added a veranda.
democracystreet.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-had-reply-from-pip...
I'm proud of it. it's sturdy, well water proofed and I imagine myself sitting below it, Oscar dog beside me, on a day of pouring rain with a thermos of tea, strengthening myself for the work of growing things.
On the right of this picture, taken on 28 Dec'11 is the frame of a polytunnel that comes from a plot, we suspect, at least a hundred yards away, blown down the VJA site by strong winds earlier in the month.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2Iy2RGHocw
www.youtube.com/watch?v=msTl0S0sPLM
Over many years I and many other local people, with support from across the UK, campaigned to prevent the selling off of the old Victoria Jubilee Allotment (VJA) site for private housing. Instead of building over the whole site the city council as a result of constant lobbying negotiated a S106 Agreement that kept housing on a third of the site and brought about the restored VJA - 80 plots - the largest new public allotment site in the UK since WW2.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMymGBDEk4I
vimeo.com/_flickr/auth.php?frob=72157628604232389-63bc982...