If you have come across this blog and there is nothing much on it, I am just starting this blog business, hoping that it will become some sort of record of an inner city allottment in the centre of Hackney. Well not exactly in the centre because my allotment is gloriously (for London that is) overlooking Hackney Marshes and the River Lee, on the edge of Hackney, just next to Springfield Park. I am also lucky enough to have a garden in Hackney, and recently even luckier to have a greenhouse in it. I have been on this allotment for 30 years now, a shocking statistic which I had not thought about much until someone asked me how long I had been there and counted it up. Someone with an allotment just about anywhere else in the world would say that our plots are small, and they certainly are, but, given there were few allotments in Hackney in 1979 when the Hackney Allotment Society started, and our waiting list is about 10 years long, we just do not have the space for full sized plots.
No photos yet, I will do my best to put some up next blog.
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