Green light
I will confess I am not so attracted to my allotment for conventional reasons (are there ‘conventional’ reasons for an allotmenteer? there’s probably a million reasons why someone has an allotment), although I started because I wanted to grow stuff, and I still do, (although I’m appallingly bad at it), the reason why I really love my allotment is for the light, the light up there is special. Obviously the light’s not constant, a grey cloudy day and you’re not going to see it, equally you’re actually not going to see it on a hot baking day either, well not the right sort of light anyway. No, the sort of light I like, is the light you get when the sun’s low and it’s casting patterns through the weeds *ahem* plants, that’s the magic time. I could just sit up there and watch it but someone’s got to go and plant some more plants for the snails to eat.
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1. Eeek look, I actually grew tomatoes this year, they didn’t get blight or anything! Shame they’re tiny and never going to go red.
2. I am quite good at growing spinach, shame I can never be arsed to go and harvest it so I can make yet more spinach soup.
3. I am also pretty good at growing rainbow chard, the snails obviously don’t like it much, which is a shame as neither do I.
4. More rainbow chard, bleurgh.
i’ve grown nothing yet but i’m sure i’ll be in the same boat as you. Least snails are enjoying it.
Good luck. Re: snails, I’m going into my third year of allotment ownership and I’ve reluctantly decided that I can’t live and let live with the little buggers anymore, much of my growing season next year will involve the use of organic snail and slug solutions, I’ve had enough.