South west allotment freshly inspected

Freshly arrived in the south west of England, I took the chance to have a look at some local allotments.

Here's some of their potatoes.  No sign of the Colorado beetles which saw the end of our crop.

Below we are being shown the difference between onions and shallots.  I'm planning on trzing shallots next year (maybe the thrips won't like them).

The carpet covering the ground on the lower right was in the dining room and summer room.  It seems to work just as well at the plot.

A classic looking set of alloments.  They were all neat and beautifully presented but quite different to ours.  There's a lot more netting and covering generally and far less water collection butts. Because we don't have a water supply system at home we all collect rain water.

Also we noticed that all the plots here are being used for growing stuff.  Ours are a mixture of plain lawn for playing on to flowers/veg and barbeque space right through to the style we saw here.  Interesting.