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enjoyed viewing your site looks lovely nice to see other people taking pride in their allotments as we do ours.HAPPY GARDENING.www.wags.btik.com

Lovely Site.
I enjoyed seeing all the colorful photo's of the gardens.

Your site makes me feel like I'm almost there. Love those California poppies. It's amazing what caring and hard work can produce.

Super website, the new website is very professional and it is a pleasure to look though the web pages. Well done.

Great website! Great site!
Best wishes
Chris.
(Gardening on one of 32 tiny plots three miles from Central London.)

I've only had an allotment a couple of months now. It hadn't been worked for over 4 years, full of mairs tail and brambles but seeing sites like yours has inspired me to keep going. I'malso trying to organise an allotments association so your website has been an insipration and full of idea's to make this work.

Thank you everyone at Birmingham Walsall road allotments.

Lindylou from Spain here. Great website. Love the photos and plotholders pages. Visited your allots last Tuesday, (visiting my family & friends in UK for the week). Said "Hola" to Ozzy! Good luck with 2008 crops and events.xx

FABBO!!

Great Looking good. Wendy's a fine looking lass!

What a beautiful, bountiful place it looks, a real inspiration to gardeners everywhere.

Looks a great site!

Both sites look great. Glad to see everyone doing such good work *and* enjoying themselves.

Love the site, especially all the pics and the border at the top

hi betty from albuqerque New Mexico USA,
having a great time here in the USA. hope to be seeing you all soon. Could you check that the onion sets that i planted are ok and the birds havn't pulled them up. See you soon Norman.

Frohe Weihnachten - Hyvää Joulua
und ein gutes Neues Jahr - ja Onnellista Uutta Vuotta

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL AT WALSALL ROAD ALLOTMENTS FROM PAULINE AT OLDFORD FARM ALLOTMENTS

Merry Christmas to all our fellow plot holders at Walsall Road. I hope you have a successful raffle on Sunday 23rd December.

Best Wishes

Andy from Thornbridge

these pictures are excellent, all the photos are of really big vegetables, what is everyone doing to get everything so big and beautifull. i guess you would not wish to eat any thing that has grown so big. i bet gerry and all the plot holders had to get some help picking there enormous crops. well done to you all.

Betty,

Many thanks for your kind words. We hope that you enjoyed your selves at our Xmas Fayre on Saturday 1st December. Special thanks to Dave and Jan Brayshaw for the case of beer which we put in the 'Mystery Bottle' stall. Its lovely to think that we have had such collaboration over the past twelve months which has united both our sites so well. Merry Christmas to all at Walsall Road and a Very Happy and Successful New Year.

Andy Poyner
Chair of Thornbridge Avenue Allotments Society

hi betty
we briefly met a couple of sundays ago with my wife lisa and her uncle bill ensor. we have volunteered to keep the toilets clean and tidy. i was wondering if it was possible for the council to look at riping out and tiding the area around the toilet block as it looks abit of an eyesore and would help to keep the toilets abit cleaner as we had to cut back a few brambles from by the ladies toilets hope to hear from you soon if not speak to you one of the sunday mornings

could Betty get in contact. Thanks.

Hi Betty need your help again.

Hi guys, my name is Amrit and i work for trident housing, we have a project near by off victoria road, called Bramble Close. i was just enquiry about how should our project apply for a plot in order to assist our service users to become more active, and also learning new skills at the same time. please feel free to contact me, ps is it true that there is a 2 year waiting list, if so could you point me in the direction of where i would be able to get a plot for a gardeners project for our servic3e users.Thank you Amrit

Thanks Betty for your help with the website. Oldford Farm Allotments.

beautiful website a real sense of community spirit and companionship!

My plot is one of 100 in west London - a few of us want to get a committe organised - any tips on this ?? Are there leagal aspects we have to follow - Or can we just get together to organise stuff ??

Well done Betty and Walsall Road plot holders for putting on a jolly good show . Dave and I and others from Thornbridge avenue allotments really enjoyed ourselves despite the weather.
The cakes were great and we had a go on everything. The wood turning demo was inspiring. Last but not least we thought the plots were very well kept especially Betty's.
Look forward to next year. Best wishes to all our friends at Walsall Rd Allotments.
Lesley

Thoroughly enjoyed your website,and,sorry, but nicked a few ideas for my own plot,which i am in the middle of sorting after taking it on in January.I would love to come over and take a tour one sunday morning,as i live in Dudley.Hope to see you all soon.

absaloutly spifinng fellas

What a nice allotment you have there,I have one in the north of holland.But the way you all work together is amazing.Have a look at my garden http://members.lycos.nl/greenheavens/
Happy gardening greetings from holland

Korjaus!
30 Decenber 2006 08:00:05??
http://www.pp.kpnet.fi/villarytilaakso

Saw this on Growfruitand veg.co.uk - Alishia is a member . Great site, well done everyone

what a great website and allotment.

well well well. Philip you look very sexy with that carot. Is that the size of your carrot?

What a fantastic site and a lovely group of people you have at your site - it must be very enjoyable! We have an allotment in Burton on Trent which is okay but the committe are not as friendly and co-operative as they could be. We're on our 2nd plot from scratch within a year - first one riddled with Mairstail!!!! nightmare - keep up the work - fantastci!

Cant believe its B,Ham Wheres the rain

Viele Grüße aus Old Germany !!!!!!!
Von den Kleingärtner Irene und Eckhard aus Korbach

It's very nice to see comments from Finland and Germany in our Guestbook - I hope they are favourable!
Betty - website manager

Terveiset täältä Kokkolasta!
Hyvää uutta vuotta 2007!

http://www.pp.kpnet.fi/rytilaakso
http://www.7broar.com
http://www.tunturisusi.com/joulu/index.htm

Hallo Ihr Gartenfreunde,
ein gesundes und friedliches Jahr 2007 wünscht Euch aus dem westlichsten Ecke
Deutschland, Aachen ,Dreiländereck : B.,NL. und D.
Günter Nießen
Wenn Ihr mal Lust und Laune habt besucht unseren Internet - Auftritt des Stadtverbands Aachen der Familiengärten mit seinen 45 angeschloßenen Anlagen.
Die Anschrift : www.kleingarten-aachen.de.

Hi Betty,
Visited your site today and I am very envious of your facilities. All that we are provided with is water!! Maybe some of your visitors would like to visit our website
http://www.glallotments.btik.com/home.ikml
It's nice to know there are like minded poeople out there.

Hi Betty,
what a wonderful website!
It´s very interesting to see all the lovely photos of your gardeners and their plots.
I am a member of a german leisure gardeners club.
You can have a look about us on our website under: www.kleingarten1932.de
Greetings to all your plot-holders from Korbach, in the middle of Germany.
Harald Ruecker

Hi to all you plotholders from the Thornbridge Road Allotment Society. Great web site. We are holding our Christmas Fayre on Sat 9th Dec at 11.00am. Father Christmas, Face Painting, cakes, jams and our usual stalls. Hope you can join us and raise money for the Edward's Trust. Best wishes to you all. Lesley

? to comment on bdac website requires a code number? What is it? Have accessed bdac website through Josey's e-mail. Can't access direct yet. Should I be accessing it a different way as I was originally going to manage the site?
Can you advise?
Clive

Hi Betty, hope you receive this. As you will see I contacted you on this page once befor. No problem. Josie.

Betty,Problem getting BDAC web page. Can you confirmm site address?
Clive
PS Received copy of Theresina's letter to Eddie re: roads. Will discuss at half yearly on Saturday at Bordesley Green @14.00

Found BDAC web page, could not get it to accept my comments. E-mailed Clive, He sugested I got in touch with Betty at Walsall Road Allotements. HELP PLEASE. Thanks in advance.

Saw the re-run recently of Monty Don in the allotment - its just Brilliant!!! Could Ron please let me know how he plants his carrots again - it sounded excellent and I want to try it too!! many thanks for any help!

Hi Betty,
it was nice to meet you and other plot holders today. You made me feel so welcome like i was an old friend. I would love to return and pick your brains to help me improve on my efforts in the garden.

Found out about the website from Antonio (Betty's son) who has donated a very long snake to our music studios! It's made us laugh a lot + we are contemplating making it into an instrument ( like the Vienna vegetable orchestra) ...or maybe it would make a very tasty supper for alot of hungry musicians... lovely allotments, we ciuld do with a scheme like that here in Bristol. Keep up the good work folks!

Like the compost snake !. Happy digging....

Hi Betty,
How lovely to see the Scarecrows appearing again at your allotments. A plant-pot is an excellent idea for a hat ! Not so popular here at our gardens this year but promises of some Scarecrows for 2007. Gardeners have been so very uncomfortable with the intense heat here this summer with temps the highest ever recorded - so early morning and late evening has been the best time for any activity. I hear England has been extremely hot too this year. No doubt rain will come along to brighten everything up and nourish the plants !.
Our gardeners over here have had great tomatoes but mine are late as my first plants failed to grow. However I am still looking forward to a great crop soon.
Your allotments are as beautiful as ever Betty.

I have recently found a great new fruit called Dragonfly Fruit and will research whether or not it can be grown in this climate and what part of our world it is grown. Worth a try to buy and taste if you see it around in any of your stores over there.

Greetings to everyone over there in England from Southern California !!
Margaret.

you inspire us all to fight to keep our allotment sites from developers.
There is at last a renewed interest in allotment gardening.
where else will you find all ages ,races and classes joining together to produce and share the Earth's bounty.
keep up the good work.
best wishes from lower cornwallis allotments hastings.

Like the work you're doing at the allotment and also on the website. Great pictures of the scarecrows but what do they taste like haa haa. The snakes in the garden look very tasty too.

Hello there ,
you have a very nice website. Well done. I am a member of Blumen- und Gartenfreunde Schwaikheim e.V. (leisure gardeners club) in Schwaikheim/Germany (located 20 km east of Stuttgart).

What a great site only wish our allotments would have one we have been there 3 years now and have encourage all our friends to get one. Our site happens to be the home of Veronica Collicutt last years winner of Britain's Best Allotment (Garden News 2005)... Keep the good work up we will keep coming back to see whats new

What a wonderful website! I love all the photos and the community feel to the site. You've obviously put in a lot of hard work - well done!

I strive to get our plotholders to have sites as fantastic as yours. Its beautiful.
I am the secretary of CAPA - Cholsey Allotments Protection Association - a group formed in 2003 to fight a campaign to prevent the sale of our allotments for housing. Some people on the Parish Council were pressing for this. So far we have been successful and 96% of one allotment site (about 40 plots) has been rented (this was always pretty well taken up) and now about 80% of the available plots are taken up on the other site (about 60 plots). There is quite a large area on this site that is overgrown with scrub and brambles, but the CAPA working party (mainly the comittee!) intends to get stuck in to this in the Autumn ready for people to take on next year. It has been shown that when a plot is accessible it is taken up, so we live in hope!
I have had an allotment for 35 years and love it. In the winter I get quite gloomy because I can't get out there!
Keep up the good work and I will 'pinch' some of your ideas to improve our own site.

This is a great web page. What a fantastic site. I hope you don't mind but I have took some of the ideas onboard. I am at allotment in north Birmingham

What a fantastic Allotment Site... and a fantastic Website too

Came to see the allotments last year, and fell in love with it. So now have one of the plots, absolute beginner, so any suggestions, tips etc gratefully received. Hope to catch up with everyone over the year.

Your allotments are a dream and I'm full of envy!! I went along to a meeting in Kempston Bedford last year to find out if I could get an allotment and left that evening as secretary and treasurer! I'm now trying to get information on setting up and providing members with membership cards and "Rules". If anyone can help with rules of allotments I'd like to hear from them. Maybe one day our little patch in Bedfordshire will be as good as yours - WELL DONE TO EVERYONE INVOLVED.

What a wonderful community allotment site. You are to be congratulated. You are an inspiration and it gives us encouragement to carry on.
Well done - keep it up.
Beryl Saunders (Gosport)
www.saundersallotment.co.uk

Hi There Betty,
Loved both the websites - good to see Harry doing some work !
Many thanks for all your hard work - the photos are lovely.

great web site grandmar i like of me with the pumpkin from jess and colin

what a geat happy bunch of people

What a lovely site ! and what a great allotment !! makes me green with envy, yours surely is a role model. Congratulations. Sweetcorn

great site, every allotment should have one

Great site, very interesting,all the very best for the future.

Just an update to you all at the gardens in Perry Barr. I have recently been planting
my potatoes over here but am late with peas and broad beans. Have to get moving
on those. Should have been busier in October with Cauliflowers and Broccoli.
I will be interested to see what is growing over there in England after your March
plantings and watching this site for news of Pumpkins, Competitions and new
Scarecrows appearing this year. So enjoyed this Site throughout 2005.
Happy gardening to you during 2006.
Hi to my friends - JUDY and ALEC.

Hi Betty, The New Pavillion looks absolutely wonderful. Great set of pictures on the Site of the old and the brand new. Love the one of the truck rolling in with the delivery to the Allotments. Nice inside views. Our gardens do not have the facilities you
have over there in England so that is extra nice for your gardeners. Wish we did.
We do not have what is classed as "permanent structures".
Your WebSite is very informative with the updates on what is going on and I am sure
everyone appreciates the documentation. Good work Betty !!! As usual, excellent
photographic work on your part.......................Margaret.

its over 1 month since i last visited your lovely website,it really is fantastic a great inspiration to all allotments everywhere,i wish i lived near your site i would apply for a plot straight away,as you seem such a very happy bunch of people,many thanks and keep up your great work

sometimes I surf and find other gardeners in a privat garden society. I like your site very much and I am allways curious if you grow different varieties of vegetables and fruits.
I am a member of the VON which is a society for privat gardeners in the northern of our country.
We make periodical about gardening on a biological way.
Our website is www.vonnederland.nl(not as good as yours).
Wishing you al the best with your society, greating from

Bert Schoemaker
The Netherlands

Well done Walsall Road, brilliant web site, inspired to have a go, watch this space !

Hello from sunny San Diego. We are putting in our winter gardens now. Our winter garden is everyone else's fall or spring garden. I have gardened in several different climates (all cold) and now I'm working in a climate where freezing temperatures are not a factor. I am learning which plants are sensitive to day length and which plants are sensitive to temperature. Some plants seem to be affected by both. I've also noticed that plants that do grow in our winter grow very slowly between mid November and mid January. Even the weeds grow slowly !! Our daylight at mid=winter is about 10 hours. It is so much fun to be able to garden during the season most people just sit by the fireplace and look at seed catalogs.

hello there everybody, I hope you can all help me, I'm 35 and am currently in my 2nd year of a photography degree course at the university of central Lancashire, I have been taking pictures of an allotment near to where I live since January (near moor park in Preston)and I am hoping to produce a book of images and some local recipes, as an assignment essay I am looking into the benefits of allotment holding, not just the fresh veg etc but more the benefits that other people may not think of such as mental health, exercise, social side for example and would love to hear your thoughts on the subject, do you think allotment holding is getting more popular,why are their existence in towns important, did you acquire your plot after a lengthy wait on a waiting list, did you acquire your plot quite quickly without a wait, has your plot been handed down to you, do you share your plot with family or friend or do you prefer to work alone, any thoughts, stories, advice would be very much appreciated and if you have any recipes you are willing to share then I would also be delighted to receive them, thanks for your time - Sarah

Hi Betty, Absolutely love the picture of you with your Rhubarb !!!! Great harvest of
Aubergines, tomatoes and peppers. Your WebSite is so interesting and has so
many great pictures of active gardeners which surely must give inspiration to many people. What a collection of great looking SCARY Scarecrows too. Have they helped keep the Crows away? The Scarecrows here at The Ocean Beach Community Garden in San Diego seem to be doing their job well, as the Crows have really stopped visiting us, presuming that the Scarecrows are "permanent gardeners" who never go home. I hope they don't figure it out real soon !! Margaret.

The seeds of the Sicilian Snake are available from www.seedsofitaly.co.uk

what a lovely website,it gives me the inspiration i needed,

where can i purchase the seed for the SICILLIAN SNAKE,or could one of your members let me buy some seed of of them if they let there plants go to seed.what do they taste like,how do you grow them,what conditions do they like/dislike,how do you cook them many thanks for a great site

Hi Betty,

Nice to see the results of the Scarecrow Competition. How nice of Karen
the Councilwoman to visit your beautiful gardens and judge those magnificent
Scarecrows. WORZEL, DAISY-EYE and SIT-DOWN MAN were great choices.
Many of my friends here in California have been admiring the Scarecrows over there
in England and as we have many crows suddenly appearing in large numbers here
I am hoping our Community Garden makes some good Scarecrows too for our
Competition on the 16th October. It is a nice and apt feature of a garden.
Congratulations to the winners !!!!

The Newsletter you have at your gardens is also very well done and of great
interest. Nicely planned out ! CONGRATS!

Margaret.

Hello from North Carolina. What a happy site! I visited Walsall in ' january '91 and '92 with my daughter Elizabeth, to work on the Gwinnett family history. It was nice to see the green side of Walsall in the summer season in your wonderful photos.
My favorite is of the Sicilan "Snake" Squash plant. It brought back memories of my Sicilian grandfather's farm in Long Island, New York state.

Betty very kindly shared the link to your FABULOUS site. All I can say is, "Wow!!!"
I've always heard of allotments, but didn't know how they worked, nor how much fun they could be. Wish I could join y'all. Thanks for letting me visit.
Dot (Oaxaca, Mexico)

Betty also led me to this marvelous site! I love the Sicilian snakes - wonder what they taste like? I also love the idea of allotments. Some communities do this here, but not very many & not with the wonderful facilities that you have. Thanks for the inspiration. Pat (from Illinois)

Fantastic web site - am inspired to set one up for our allotments in Portsmouth. We have 400 allotments on our site in Locksway Road alone - 1,600 in Portsmouth altogether. There are 90 people waiting for an allotment on our site! We do a newsletter so I am putting your web site in the next one so others can share your tips etc. Thanks for sharing yours with us! Will certainly visit again!

Your web site was given to me by a friend.I often visit, and its getting better all the time.Keep up the good work, I only wish I had more time.........then I would join you.

Loved the photo of Pat stockford - not sure whether it was a scarecrow

Ignore my comment - only joking . Know how hard alan and Pat work

Loved all the delicious looking veggies. I hope our new website looks just as good.

Hi Betty, Absolutely love the SCARECROWS !! Great job everyone. Wish I could
fly over THE POND and be one of the Judges. Keep it going......
Wondering where your picture is Betty for this Site. Arms full of Rhubarb would be
a good one. Waiting to see that....................Greetings to all the gardeners from
Southern California. Special greetings to Judy and Alex.
Wish I had some of your rainshowers.....................Margaret.
PS. Hi Hazel, So nice that you got to meet my Mother over there in England.

I just wandered around your wonderful site. Garden plots are something I wish more Americans would take on. There is so much good that comes from a garden. And not just the harvest! The hard work, seeing your efforts rewarded, etc. make gardening so wonderful. Community gardens would be so good for us here, but there are few of them compared to what could be. Thank you for this great site!

Hi Betty,
I have just looked at your website and think it is fabulous, but where is a photo of you?!!!

Hello Betty, Just made another visit to your site and yet more lovely photographs are added. Just wonderful Betty..........nice outdoor picture of the Committee Meeting.
Of course I love the picture of my friend Judy at work in her garden over there.

Great site, don't believe those snake thingy's or the trombones!
If you have a problem with carrot fly, Carl certainly seems to, sow at the same time, mixed in with the carrot seed, some spring onion seed. Carrot fly don't like onions and vicky verky onion fly don't like carrots.
Mick, S.France.

glad someones doing something to promote allotment sites in brum.....from the chair of walkers heath allotment association

Betty,
What a really pretty site. I have never known much of gardening, but I know good veggies when I see them. I knew you were into gardening, but this shows your true passion for it! Keep up the great work and thank you for sharing it with me.

Margaret told me about your lovely garden. I wish i could check it out personally, but i'll just have to enjoy the wonderful photos. I'm also a member of the community garden in Ocean Beach, here in San Diego. I've gardened in Massachusetts and Oregon in the USA. They say Oregon's climate is a lot like England from a gardening point of view. I love the year-round gardening in southern California. We have wild parrots flying overhead and we can grow tropical fruit in addition to the usual garden veggies. I'll visit your site again soon.

Betty , Enjoyed visiting your web site hope to visit allotment on a sunday morning very soon. ( noticed a picture of barry who i know ) keep up the good work. Ron.

Dear Betty, Lovely new photographs added to your site. Some of our gardeners
here in San Diego have visited your WebSite and have been admiring it greatly.
I am apreading the word and will make a Notice for hanging in the garden so that
anyone interested can view your hard-working gardeners over there in England.

As you can see, all the family in Cornwall are now involved in joining your wonderful Website, Betty. We think it is great and it is so interesting to hear the opinions of other people. Keep up the good work, including attending the allotment !!! _ See you soon.

Betty, I am in deep SHOCK and total amazement that Alec on your WebSite is an
old friend and that through you I have found my friends Alec and his lovely wife Judy.
I took a chance e-mailing you to find out if he was indeed the friend I used to know
all those years ago and when I received your e-mail today I almost fell off of my chair.
How delightful is that !!
Well thanks to the VEGGIEPATCH GROUP and my friend Chuck here who put you
and I in touch and then viewing your Site I know that Alec is busy digging away just
as I am here in California. What an absolutely TINY WORLD we all live in. Much
tinier that we all would think!!!!
MY KIND REGARDS TO ALEC AND JUDY.........Keep digging Alec !!
Love your compost heap idea for your Pumpkins !

Hi Betty,
Just looked at your Allotments Web- Site and absolutely love the new pictures added.
You are doing a wonderful job both at the allotments and planting your seeds plus
creating such a beautiful and informative Web- Site.
I am so impressed by the Sicilian "cucumber" type veggie that you grow in England.
I have not seen one here in California as yet. I must get a hold of seed for that as
I am totally intrigued by the look of it.
I am enjoying meeting the gardeners across The Pond via the Web-Site. You all
seem so absorbed in gardening. Keep up the good work over there !!!!
I haven't yet started a Site for our Ocean Beach Community Garden here in the USA
but hope to in the future. Betty - you are a total inspiration for me to do that.
HAPPY GARDENING TO YOU ALL IN PERRY BARR, ENGLAND.
Kind Regards......Margaret.

A well laid out ,informative site . A pity I live so far away or I could be tempted:-)

Wow! Totally impressed Betty. It added an extra dimemsion to your excellent website when you showed us around the allotment recently and we got to see the various plots featured. We're certainly going back for a look-see when everything's growing again later this year!
And yes, - it's inspired us to do the old "dig for victory" bit!
Excellent website - totally engaging and interesting, wonderful photos.

Great idea- I support the lovely work which you are all doing - especially my Dad Harry who has always been a talented gardener- I will read about your achievements in Launceston Cornwall and enjoy a real taste of wonderful Brum!!!! Keep up the good work!! Katexxx

hello this is a lovley web site especially as "harry" is my grandad. I think it will make people feel like doing more gardening. xx

This an excellent website, well done with harry's (my grandpa) Photo!

love the website - nice photos- very proud- up the blues!!( and villa of course!!)

Award winning rhubarb!!! - Many thanks Betty. It was delicious. You should start your own "home grown" veg stall at weight watchers.

lovely web-site and the allotments aren't too bad either, (just joking-they are superb)- I love the tomato on the home page. I belong to Astwood bank allotments, nr. Redditch Worcestershire, where I have been every Sunday for 10 years. I wish my allotment society had such a good web-site.

Great web site. I enjoyed my visit very much. The lovely photos I am sure will encourage more to take up plots on your superb site. If only we all had such good facilities. I shall be very pleased to add a link from my web site www.saundersallotment.co.uk
My Best Wishes to you all for the coming season. I hope your site will continue to grow.

Betty. I have realy enjoyed looking at your website. You have such a lovely allotment. All the ones in my area have been built on.
I run the local Horticultural Society and will put your web page address in our next news letter, so that more people can share your passion for plants. Well Done

Many thanks to you Betty for producing an excellent website. This is my 3rd year on this site and my thanks go to the committee for all of their support and encouragement and to all of my fellow allotment holders. I'm sure that this site will be an inspiration for new beginners to come and join our merry band.
Keep on digging.

Betty, loved the pictures and comments. I am a confirmed gardener but we can't do
in Minnesota what you do in England. Hugs to Graham and Vera.

Hi from California. Wonderful Site. I am the Membership Coordinator/Contact of the
Ocean Beach Community Garden here in Southern California. You have a wonderful
Site and a wonderful garden. We also give awards at our garden and find it so interesting to see you doing the same thing over there in England. I am a transplant
from England and enjoy the all-year-round planting here. Will be keeping in touch
with your site...............wonderful gardening going on with your gardeners.

Very nice website Betty. I enjoyed all of the pages, very nice photos and some mighty talented gardeners. I will share this link with English gardening friend who manages the community garden here in San Diego. Thanks for sharing this with the VeggiePatch Group on the WWW.

Betty- The pictures are wonderful!
You're site is so well done. Nice going

Betty...Thanks for the link to your website. I really loved visiting...Great work.

Betty,
What nice plots and what a really great website! You worked very hard and it shows!
Kisses to the puppies!

What an interesting site! I am always in awe of people who have a talent for growing things. I'm afraid I would be banned from the allotments as I do not have a green thumb.

You've done a beautiful job with your 'fledgling' site. Keep up the great work! I think it's just wonderful that a lot of you 'urbanites' are utilizing what your park district is offering and puts me in mind of all our large city parks here stateside during WWII. Everyone who was interested was 'alloted' a small plot to grow their own fresh veggies. It was an awsome sight. Thanks for sharing, Betty!

Gladys in Oregon - USA

I have realy enjoyed looking over your website. Well Done Betty!! The gardens there are just great too.

Hello from San Diego, California. My friend Chuck Hansen wrote in your Guest Book
about our Community Garden here in Ocean Beach, San Diego. I am the Membership
Coordinator/Contact there and we have a beautiful garden. We too have Awards given
each year for Tallest Sunflower and many other categories including a Trophy for Gardener of the Year. Love your pictures. We collect pictures of events in our garden
also. As I am a transplant from England (a fugitive from the snow I guess) I try to put
a touch of England to our gardens out here. The difference here is that being Southern
California we grow produce all year long which is so very different but very rewardomg.
We have a Membership of 50. We have a chicken coupe and enjoy fresh eggs and
also keep a few ducks with their own Pond Area. I so enjoyed your WebSite. It is
encouraging me to create one for our Ocean Beach Community Garden here also.
Keep growing !!!

Very impressed with the standard of the site if Wendy's plot is anything to go by.
Wish I had the time to join you all.
Keep up the good work.

Great site and well laid out web site. Rather jealous of the pumpkins featured. Will keep coming back to see more pictures when you add them this growing season.

Brilliant site - may it grow as well as your allottments!!

Excellent (web)site and an even better allotment site ;-)
May your efforts to introduce folk to the delights of allotmenteering be a success.
Keep up the good work.

Great site Betty ...
Congrats to you - although with all your plots I don't know how you have the time !

Good luck with it,

Tess

Everyone seems to be retirment age this is not so in london . Enjoyed the Photos but didn't like the popup one each time the homepage is accessed---the pumpkins.

Kevin

well done, Betty, terrific so far and i'll keep an eye on it to see what you add.

Beautifull site Betty. I have added it to my favourites so that i can keep revisiting it to see how your site and allotments are progressing.Well done once again.
Nige V