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about after a long cold spring which we've had this year it is now turned into a fantastic summer
with fantastic expectations met so you know no complaints from me at all summer for me is
kind of payback time some people might call it more reward than payback but actually pays you back
for your work and also for the things you do wrong which is quite interesting in its own right
i think it's been pretty good i know that some onions have struggled for people mine i put them
in before the winter and they were massive so you know they've been a real success set against
ones that have planted later in the year that haven't been so great but actually
even strawberries huge amounts of strawberries i'm just now trying to think of a disappointment
i mean i started off my courgettes and marrows and squash etc at home and then i was going i had to
go off in may there was a trip i had to take so i ended up putting them in on a wing and a prayer
because it was so so cold and i ended up protecting them and they've come up great they're really
doing well now um my sweet peas have done extremely well they're going a bit over now and um
yeah i mean on the whole most things did really well but i'll tell you what the onions this year
were rubbish whether it's the damp and the cold in the spring i think it probably is because
nearly all well all my garlic had the white mould which i've never had before and a lot of
onions are really rubbish um i had really good lot last year um but it's it's it's the way it goes
you know some years you have some really good time other years you have my name is jim um a local
man from well not local but yawksham had come in down to lesa but um got two allotments one where
i can do things on one where i can't do things so hence the reason why this one this is the plot
where i can't do things in the sense of i can keep my chickens here i can do my bees here and also
setting it up to be able to grow some grape vines for next year so on this plot i'm hoping to have
around about 20 grape vines black and white ones a variety and at the bottom of the plot will be
where the apreas is where the bees will be in fact the bees are there now on the right on your left
is uh where my hens are and these are like sussex hens with one rody i hatched them out last year
and very successful we actually hatched out over 100 hens last year and a lot of them are over in
oakum but these girls here they've been producing approximately 10 eggs out of the 15 each day so
wifey's getting a bit concerned at the amount of eggs she's got collecting in the house at this
moment time this is rody she's a road island red purebred she's a bit scatty at the moment she's
the only rody out of the 15 hens i've got so that's the reason why she's called rody um very very
friendly in fact probably the most friendliest one out of all of them all the girls but she does get
a bit hand packed hence the reason why she's losing a bit of feathers around herself this young girl
she'll be here for another year or two and then i'm afraid she's going to be a sunday dinner at some
point in the future yes yes sunday they all will be sunday dinners at some point joining us on the table
i've got bees on the side here um we've got one hive at the moment and bees are good for the pollination
of all the fruit and believe it not queens road allotment area is one of the best honey collecting
zones for the the bees for the pollen for the nectar everything else there's lots of lime trees around
and there's lots of a variety of flowers throughout the year at the moment the the bees are sitting quietly
because it's the august area so what's happened at some point is there'll be a swarm swarm comes out
of the the hive and they'll basically go up to the nearest point a tree or a bush somewhere
and they'll just sit there with the queen waiting for uh the queen uh not the queen that the bee
gatherers who have found a location to sit for the night they will then fly off to another tree
and they'll move from tree to tree until such time as the scouts come back said i've found a new home
so one of the things as a bee kibble we have to either catch that swarm if it's not ours or manage
the hive a lot better by suddenly biding it before it actually swarms but uh we often get called out to
do swarms and uh we can do that very simply by pulling the the bees into a box uh once we got
to that site and gather them up from that point get somebody coming near you don't jump fast just walk
away slowly yeah i don't like fast moving right my aim now is to pick this up and bang all the bees
in there just like that
you will smell a pheromone that smells like pear drops
and all the bees will be giving that signal off to say hello we're here
coming helpers
so the aim of the bottom floor is for to attract them to come in so these are all flying around
like so and they'll start signaling to say we're downstairs
and you'll notice they all start walking up the hill if you look down at the the white pad
they all start walking up the hill to go into the hive
and they all some of them poking the heads the tails up sending out the smell
we've got a new home
the reason for coming to this tree it's a rest point before they start moving on to another
place now out there somewhere our bees are saying i'm looking for a house i can't find a house yet
and then tonight they'll settle down and a couple of bees will come back says
i found a house or i haven't found a house but we've actually created one for them
now the aim now is just to leave it that's all there is to it one new hive for the future
hopefully next year 25 to 50 pound of honey
it's hard to believe that just behind these houses on our right are the secret gardens of
queen's road allotments plenty of people walk drive or sit on the bus going down queen's road
without any idea that they exist yeah we've we've been doing some research about the area
and this space was actually called puffers close and it used to be surrounded by allotments acres
and acres of allotments but gradually over the years we can tell from the maps that the housing
development has generally encroached on those allotments until we've got to this space here
and one other that was behind us that used to be called a cradic number one allotments
and we lost those to a housing development just at the beginning of the well it was 2001
they started to build on those there used to be 45 allotments and we fought battles through the
80s and 90s to try and protect them but and although less the city council turned down the
planning applications a couple of times the the the developers appealed to the secretary of state
and the inspector found in their favor eventually because he said that there wasn't enough evidence
of demand or he couldn't find enough evidence of demand and so we did lose that battle and it was
devastating we were absolutely overwhelmed i think by it it was particularly hard on people like
charlie who was an old gardener over there and he'd always been against development even though
he stood to gain from it i think since the advent of the friends of the queens road allotments and
the gradual sort of development of working parties social events and everything like that
we're starting to change the culture over here so people owners are not necessarily holding
on to their allotments in the hope that they're going to be built on eventually i mean for a
start it'd be much harder to pick off individual owners the other thing is it means now that
allotments are actually changing hands and people are passing them on selling them to new
gardeners and you know you've only got to look at some of the improvements where plots were derelict
in the past and they're now actually coming back into life there's some fantastic work going on
as you know this was a new plot to me in the spring i took it over it had had some clearing
worked on but needed a fair bit more done but i was really quite worried that it wasn't going to
look to be a good year we had quite a bit of rain and we had some strange temperatures and
seeds weren't taking i was putting plants in and they weren't taking and i was beginning to get
depressed and then suddenly we we got a summer we got a perfect summer of sun and rain and everything
has gone wild you know the the beans are getting longer and longer they're almost touching the
ground everything's swelling by the day so it's very exciting i'm thrilled to be at this stage
with the plot i wasn't expecting it but unfortunately i've set myself a standard for next year so
i'm really going to have to work at it to get anything like this the weeding is exhausting
on a lot an allotment i find with this one if i don't weed every day the brambles come and get me
and they grow as you look at them it's quite frightening i think i've removed a lot of them
but i turn my back come back the next morning and they're you know a few inches high so the weeding
is never ending and frankly you ignore the weeds at your peril one of the things i'm particularly
enjoying is seeing my daughter getting involved because she just has like a backyard in her house
and her children fin leaves four is becoming a very keen gardener and the baby likes to come and
eat soil and you know generally familiarize herself with gardening but we're told children
need to have the hands in soil nowadays otherwise they won't build up their immune systems so it's
um it's it's for a future generation as well these are broad beans aren't they yeah but we used to
sing a song at school about uh old veggies and it and the chorus went the broad beans are sleeping
in a blanket in bed so i taught that to Finn yesterday but these little stacks are like
just as something a bit different from crisps or raisins there's a mar oh she likes them
so yeah finny comes almost every day uh well the last few weeks you've been here every day
haven't you because granddad has been taking finny to school so before school they get the treat
of coming here to do a bit of work don't you fin what's your favorite vegetable to eat
potatoes right and you're growing them aren't you so you're gonna have fresh potatoes brilliant
are you ready to go home now yet enough
all right i'd say you've had pretty good year
pretty good i think is an understatement uh i feel absolute blessed blessed by nature this year
the plot has taken a lot of work because it was a new one uh it hadn't been touched for a long time
and i knew i was taken a risk by planting it fairly vigorously and there were times when
it felt like touch and go because we had some really cold snaps in the spring
and i thought oh you should have just covered it and waited but no it's been worth the patience
and the hard work and the belief in nature and the rewards are now there for everybody to see and enjoy
another role of the committee is to try and uh i suppose encourage a sense of community within
the the plot holders so to do that we we've had events in the winter winter warmer we have a summer
barbecue yeah the summer barbecues a good opportunity for us to socialize get together
because you can be working on your plots and you know your neighbors your close neighbors but you
don't get to meet other people very often during the year because you're all busy on your blocks so
this is a great time to chat and find out
we have little competitions sort of silly competitions like scarecrow competitions
and this year is going to be a great allotment bake-off and so those bring the allotment
gardeners together but we also have been opening the allotments to the public every
august along with the council plots opening days and this year we had 60 people come and that's
really great we get feedback from people they become aware of them and that's good for us and we
hope that you know we can develop this even further in the future we try to have an open
day once a year it gives us the opportunity of sharing the joy of the allotments the magic of
the allotments the hidden secret little allotments with all the local residents one of the ladies
that came this morning said something which was very interesting she's lived in the area for a
very long time and often walks down allotment road appears through our different gates wondering
what was actually happening the other side of the gate the secret little area hidden behind the house
is on Queens Road it is quirk in it's different because there's so much different things there
it's the the flowers the livestock and butterflies everything it's it's it's strange because it's
right in the middle of the city and you don't usually get something in the middle of the city
what a shame if you ever lost something that was absolutely necessary to the area because there's
so many people get so much joy out of this and you see them on the allotments and you know
it's absolutely i think it's absolutely fabulous it's a lovely environment isn't it and there's like
architutes just growing in the middle of this as you're walking down the path things are growing
in different areas not necessarily on the allotment so you've got all the blackberries the elder
flowers the apple trees the plums everything's just all over the place and it's the wildlife
the wildlife as well there's chickens birds all the different birds foxes we know that come over
on the allotment we had a hedgehog in the garden so obviously hedgehogs are in this area so it's
in that sense alone it's an environmental gold mine if you like to the animals to the animals and
the and the area you just can't you've got to go so far away to find something like this and that's
the beauty i think of queens road allotment part of the unique landscape of queens road allotment
site includes an array of old garages workshops greenhouses and sheds unlike the usual buildings
you would expect to see on other allotment sites many of which do not allow buildings to be erected
they seem to be melded into the undergrowth each with its own story to tell we hope that when these
amazing mackled buildings crumble to the ground they're not all just replaced with normal standard
sheds have you ever seen this building before ted it's absolutely incredible look at the critch
windows oh they're the ones that special in westershire yeah aren't they brilliant yeah the history
behind this shed is that the plot was worked by a man called muhammad and he was either um attack
i think he was a taxi driver i thought he was a postman but he was i think he was a taxi driver
and every few days he used to bring a handful of bricks here until he had enough bricks to build
this structure and it's quite a substantial structure it goes back quite away inside he had
tool storage and a shelter and he also had a fireplace how long did he take him to bring the
bricks i don't know but wendy can remember him building it she said it was there's no foundations
he just piled the bricks up and there are a few cracks but if you come over here inside here is
a wood burning fireplace wood burning chimney breast with a fireplace in it right and apparently
what he used to do was in february march and april he used to keep a small fire going yeah and the
heat would come out here to prevent the apple blossom freezing so that it would actually increase
the propagation of the apples on this tree so it's deliberate so it's deliberate it's not artistic
it's not artistic it's a bit heath robinson it's very similar to the sort of ideas that were
done in or injuries at big council estates yeah look at that little higgledy piggledy window as well
now people have been talking about a chimney and a stove in one of the garages and i think this
is the one that they're actually referring to and that they've got the wrong location because this
is obviously a working chimney it's got a chimney pot at the top it's a lovely structure this is the
one that's on the 1930 map this structure is on the 1930 map this not on the whatever the previous
map was it's not on that one no no but i i would say from the oak doors look to the cupboards that
would be 1930s wouldn't it yeah and um what a lovely little structure the whole thing is double
garage and then another little garage here at the side which is where the allotment shop used to be
in the late 60s and 70s and it was open every saturday and sunday morning and it was run by
beryl taffy's wife i wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't still working
come and have a look at this building it's absolutely incredible two sheds together
yeah it's um it's heading this way it's got a wood burning stove at that corner
and when i first went in there when alan took me in there about eight years ago to have a look at it
you could smell pipe smoke and apparently this is where the old guys all used to meet
when the weather wasn't suitable to put the world to rights but the fact it's got a little chimney
a working chimney a little working chimney place and little seats where all the old guys used to sit
smoking their pipes absolutely he's done a lot of work to try and save this building but it really is
unique isn't it it's gorgeous the hanging onions of baby hall it's quite a structure and here's where you sit
here and your stove and your pipe and maybe your bottle of beer
and what's in the wild weeds just grow in front of you
so
this is the pergola when i when i created last time which didn't add hardly anything just to
there are a few shoot to the beans over there and then just to well five six weeks is already
well hired up and buy i think another two three weeks will be all cover and this it looks spectacular
well talking about talking about the plant of the courgette when i say pollinated which they were
long the actual original one they were believe it or not this one is a courgette the original one
they were like that the original one like that with the speckle and now they got the cross pollinated
they want to show you early on they actually growing ground what you gonna do with that i don't know i
going to give it on Sunday to the to the people you know they come to to buy and they can they can get
the seed because this will be then about 300 500 seed inside last time you came round and you took
some pitch of my garden the goji berry they were just to start into have a little boots like that one
and now they are spectacular look how many goji berries beautiful look at that and look the size of it
look at that look at that goji berry and what do you do with those well they are antioxidants
and they're supposed to keep you young so i'm going to have a lot and lot so in 60 years time i hope
to be here still as long as i can eat goji berry you're looking lovely lovely beautiful
i just saw five years drop off you oh yeah yeah you can do anything what i'm going to do this year
i'm going to mix some goji berry with the wine shouldn't you guys be doing some work yeah see
it's standing around talking all the time is this legal it's not legal but italian don't care about
legality we do what we like we belong to the he's mafia he's a mafia it's a mafia it's his queen's
road moonshine that's it yeah he can't mildew wine he put a wine in it no that's not wine is it
no it's more but you can't it's not it's not even water so what's the plan here what's the plan
the plan is we're going to do 1800 liter of wine and you go 12 you go to get some people to
so get inside so the box is out to get a bad leaf you know right so on the 15 the grapes are
right so you can get me a few volunteer it stinks water pretend it pretend it's wine
all right so you do any fucking thing the job body will help you out
what do you mean yeah i know you're fucking that shall i shall i try on your head see where
they say we'll play try come on then boys so what's this this is a cherry branch yeah so in that way what
i'm going to do duty fermentation i'm going to chook that in it so the wine will get a better
taste of cherry all right i trust you i believe you i believe you that's why i put this on it i got
it's going it's going to be inside oh what thank you i don't know look at that you see it on tele
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