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Posted by tonybloke (U10358435) on Sunday, 28th March 2010
I hear that joe gave up his plot, he didn't even harvest the crops he planted.
what a waste of an allotment plot!!
well if true , it is in-keeping with the slapdash manner of the programme during the last 13 months...
He lost the plot a long long time ago
Didn't he write a book on how to maintain an allotment?
Even took his shed and them daft beds.
Where did you all hear this..?
He took the shed cos it was only allowed because of the filming. He didn't harvest much because of the mares tail. It's been divided up and given to 3 people
, in reply to message 7.
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I am glad that the plot has gone to people who can hopefully really benefit from it. Joe's efforts didn't really represent what allotment keeping is really like. He should have left the fancy beds alone and shown how talking to people who have been at the allotment for many years can help and advise on the best crops to grow as well as when and how to plant.
I think it was a good idea to give up the allotment and let some really keen gardeners have it. It happens all the time on our allotment site; about a third of newcomers give up within 12 months. People don't realise that is is hard work - enjoyable - and very different to looking after some pots and window boxes.
Joe lost me when he went in with the tiller, when my father dug over ground left fallow for a while every spade full went on to a large sieve and we would pick out the weeds.
There are no quick fixes with allotments or vegetable gardens, it is hard work but once you get into a system of working and rotating crops it will become easier.
Joe did gardeners no favours by trying to take short cuts.
Frank.
I could never understand the logic of using a presenter with no vegetable growing experience to demonstrate the growing of vegetables. That he has not continued with his plot does not surprise me in the least.
the idea was to show how a veg novice deals with a first time plot.
How shaming those picture were of the wreckage of Joe's lottie after he's swanned off back to buying from Waitrose. No wonder the ´óÏó´«Ã½ was quick to censor the evidence of squandering license payer's money.
There is a thread about all this on A4A, started by a poster who has an allotment on the same site. It's all very interesting.
It may well have been a series feature showing how a beginner tackles his plot but it ought to have been a series on how an intelligent, practical beginner should tackle his or her plot in order to cope with a new site infested with weeds and/or rubble as most people have to when first getting their new allotment.
Given his skill at propagating mare's tail and other pernicious weeds, it's hardly surprising he's abandoned it but it's also a great opportunity lost by the gardening Beeb.
, in reply to message 15.
Posted by jauntycyclist (U14199772) on Thursday, 8th April 2010
there are even some pictures of what it looks like now.
its all about what you love. if you don't love it dump it.
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