Allotments

Colin_Kee

Saw Jamie Oliver interviewing some "Gorilla Gardeners" on his Ministry of food program. they just went aroung planting fruit bushes, and veg on council/public land and even planted veg in the flower boxes and planters in the local town. all without council concent. raised a very valid point. Could you imagine the council taking you to court to prosecute you for planting veg!! I'm seriously thinking of just planting veg & fruit tress on some scrub land on the other side of my boundry fence.. it's quite a big verge of scrubland between my house and a road. theres no pedestrian access or footpaths near it and it's never ever maintained by the council. it's just lying there doing nothing... what do you lot think??

BelfastMish

I heard a rumour that Newtownabbey Council are thinking of creating more allotments in their area so keep your eyes peeled for information about that

lfabargain

Rob_Orton wrote: »

I have three acres of land between portadown and Bleary that i am thinking of portioning out and renting as allotments if i think enough interest would be gained

Rob, I would be interested if you are going ahead with this. Any indications of how much you expect to rent the allotments for ?

RooBee

Colin_Kee wrote: »

Craigavon Council. NO SPARE LAND!!, Give me a break, Let me see, Making the assumption it's their's, there's a load of scrubland behind the Courts, (About 1 Acre) There's god knows how many acres beside LIDL stretching up behind Highfield. Would be interesting to know if the council own this land!!!

A large amount of that land at Highfield is in the ownership of a private company, not the Council. However, Craigavon Council do appear to have a sizeable land bank.

Old_Git

craigavon council used to have allotments near roundabout 2 .
But they where always being vandalised .

slithy

Colin_Kee wrote: »

Saw Jamie Oliver interviewing some "Gorilla Gardeners"

Hmmm, Great Ape Gardeners, sounds interesting and slightly scary ... perhaps you meant Guerilla Gardeners :-)


Anyway, anyone interested in allotments in North Down might want to see our campaign to have the Holywood Allotments reinstated. See the Holywood Transition Town wiki.

absoluteutopia

There will be 38 with running water and metered electric between Randalstown and Duneane early next Spring. Watch the Antrim/Ballymena guardian around the last week in Feb for details contact etc. Won't be dear

Pretani

absoluteutopia wrote: »

There will be 38 with running water and metered electric between Randalstown and Duneane early next Spring. Watch the Antrim/Ballymena guardian around the last week in Feb for details contact etc. Won't be dear

could you give us more information on the site and amenities;) what's the size of the plot and what size of shed comes with the plot?
cheers