Sorry Sir we have no allotments available.

[enailer]

Innit weird when you go to a place looking tae get an allotment. There they are all covered in weeds auld couches tables and windies but the damned wummin at High St still says `Sorry sir we have no allotments available`

[hungryjoe]

You can grow anything you like (within reason ) in ma gairden in Stevenston. Free.

[BrigitDoon]

There's always guerilla gardening.

[The Egg Man]

BBC News is just covering this story.

[enailer]

Its ok saying you can grow anything in yer gairdin free but ah live 20 storeys up (thats where yer pieces get toasted during re-entry)and they dont come with gardens.

[My Kitten]

try direct with the associations, you might get up the ladder quicker (and get to know your fellow gardeners better)

[hungryjoe]

Its ok saying you can grow anything in yer gairdin free but ah live 20 storeys up (thats where yer pieces get toasted during re-entry)and they dont come with gardens.

When I said you could grow anything, I meant you in person. I fucking hate gardening.

[My Kitten]

depending on what way your windows are facing (or the windows on your landing) lots can be grown in a multi. Tatties (kid you not! a big bucket will do that), courgettes, tomatoes, peppers that kind of thing, anything that can grow on a window ledge.

[hazy]

Thier was allotments on Saxon Road in Knightswood but they have not been used in absolut yonks. You can see them on Google Earth. They will probably get Ryden to sell off the land.

[Celyn]

Its ok saying you can grow anything in yer gairdin free but ah live 20 storeys up (thats where yer pieces get toasted during re-entry)and they dont come with gardens.

I am bashing myself on the head for not getting the reference when I glanced at this thread earlier. Ah, the great wisdom of Adam McNaughtan.

I suppose possibly, just possibly, that the answer for those of us living in multi-storeys who might want cheap food, given that gardening is out of the question, might turn out to be finding a way to trap seagulls and the damn pigeons. Come to think of it, there might be potential side benefits in collecting all the feathers and making pillows or something. Nah, still too scary for me. Blood and guts and messiness.

Coincidentally, I was speaking on the 'phone earlier with a friend who does have a garden, and given the economic situation, we were joking about "austerity measures" etc. Friend laughingly agreed that I could not really grow food because I would need all sort of special gro-lamp lights and that would cost a fortune, AND then a nice Mr. Plod would come around and I would have to explain, "no, those are tomato plants, really they are, and this is mint and here is parsley, sage and so on, and those are carrots, Constable". *

Actually, where I live (in Sighthill) there used to be allotments. Then it was discovered that the land was contaminated with arsenic and general bad shit. All right, the last bit was not scientific language but mine own.


* aye, all right, you may feel free to groan if you must, but it's hard not to make a Pratchett Discworld reference sometimes. Mea culpa.

[enailer]

Well things are startin tae look up. That damned wee wummin at the High St office has got in touch with me and I now have tae see an allotment behind the Celtic training ground on London Road on Friday morning(ah suppose ah could pretend ah was somewhere else when ah pass the Celtic place)thats not bad eh? The season for growins nearlly over but theres always next year.

[The Egg Man]

I stumbled across the Glasgow Allotments Forum http://www.glasgowallotmentsforum.org.uk/ at the weekend whilst looking for something else.

I know nothing about then beyond that they exist. Maybe they can help.

[The Egg Man]

Lambhill Stables are looking for local residents interested in allotments.

"Would you be interested in taking on an allotment? We have secured funding to create allotment space at Hillend Road. Please get in touch to find out how you can soon be getting back to nature with your own garden and growing your own vegetables."

Lambhill Stables
34-36 Glentanar Place
Balmore Industrial Estate
Glasgow
G22 7XT
Telephone 0141 336 4843
Email [email protected]

http://www.lambhillstables.co.uk/index.html