Can we break this mould? Will the current must-have-a-plot/must-grow-our-veg hype survive a receding recession and a winter or two of digging and chilblains or will we, too, emulate history? What are we doing to spread the word that rooting ourselves and our veg should be normal everyday life for each generation, on our window ledges, in pots outside our back doors, in our plots or our gardens; that a bunch of mixed in season flowers beats 10 perfectly formed, cellophane-wrapped, carbon footprint stamped matching stems any day? Landowner Sir Julian Rose certainly seems to be supporting the movement by offering 5 acres of his agricultural land in Oxfordshire for allotment rental.
If you are near The Garden Museum, pop in. If not, make an outing of it and enjoy their café, shop and garden.
The Good Life exhibition, until March 7, 2010. www.gardenmuseum.org.uk
A perfectly flourishing, vibrant, first time blogspot. Welcome to the blog-o-sphere! Great read, fun and entertaining. I may even take up gardening and now seem to have the burgeoning desire to aquire an allotment of my own!
ReplyDeleteI feel almost moved to head off to the Garden Museum! Keep blogging! Susannah
ReplyDeleteI had no idea there was a gardening museum in London. I hope to visit it. I believe we would all benefit from growing edible plants even if it is only parsley in a pot on the window sill. Sarah
ReplyDeleteThis is a very good review, but you haven't mentioned that if you take something that you have grown yourself, in to the Museum for them to sell, then you get in to the exhibition for FREE.
ReplyDeleteSO hurry on down there with the last of your produce all you allotmenteers.
You will be WELCOME