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How big is your patch? - Scarlet - 23-01-2022
So, I know allotments are based on "poles" though haven't a clue how many
I have a large garden but I always go back to my greenhouse area. I don't really care what it
looks like. It does get in a bit of a mess at times but it's where I enjoy myself most.
Now I'm busy planning seed sowing and I know what I want to grow won't fit
so I think I will dig up the patch that I let go a few years ago. I think flower growing is easier than digging up spuds? I maybe wrong but I do have more time to myself now the boys are mostly away from home.So the area by the side of my greenhouse is 30ft x x30ft? The area by the second greenhouse is 16ftx30. Though I do have the garden itself which has some serious big borders....
So, how big is your garden, veg plot or whatever you tend?
RE: How big is your patch? - Veggie - 23-01-2022
According to the Allotment Society
"An allotment is traditionally measured in rods (perches or poles), an old measurement dating back to Anglo-Saxon times. 10 poles is the accepted size of an allotment, the equivalent of 250 square metres or about the size of a doubles tennis court".
If you still work in old money, the SCAA say -".An allotment plot is normally 10 poles. 10 poles are 302.5 square yards.
One pole is an area 5.5 yards’ x 5.5 yards. This gives 160 poles to one acre, which is 16 plots of ten poles each to the acre"
Any the wiser? Thought not.
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RE: How big is your patch? - Vinny - 23-01-2022
(23-01-2022, 06:16 PM)Veggie Wrote: According to the Allotment SocietyThe 10 rod,perches or poles was what the government in WW2 deemed to be a big enough space to feed a family with 2.4 children if intensively managed!
"An allotment is traditionally measured in rods (perches or poles), an old measurement dating back to Anglo-Saxon times. 10 poles is the accepted size of an allotment, the equivalent of 250 square metres or about the size of a doubles tennis court".
If you still work in old money, the SCAA say -".An allotment plot is normally 10 poles. 10 poles are 302.5 square yards.
One pole is an area 5.5 yards’ x 5.5 yards. This gives 160 poles to one acre, which is 16 plots of ten poles each to the acre"
Any the wiser? Thought not.
RE: How big is your patch? - SarrissUK - 23-01-2022
My back garden is about 30 metres long and 12 metres wide. In that space there's a greenhouse, three sheds (two of which will disappear), two chicken sheds (one of which will disappear) and a summer house. The pond will go too.
We want the space for a bigger summer house that is facing the right direction for enjoying the sun in an early evening. We will convert the patio and the raised decking to a more social space with a pizza over that is covered.
RE: How big is your patch? - JJB - 23-01-2022
Our 'building' plot including the house area is said to be about a third of an acre although I've never measured it. The back garden is about 100m long and I think about 15m? wide (I'm going to have to measure the width tomorrow) so long and narrow.
There's 2 big veg plots each about 25ft x 16ft, a little one 7 x 20ft and 2 fruit cages, one 25 x 7ft and one ?? 8 x 15 ish, two 8 x 6ft greenhouses.
The lawns and flower borders are a bit haphazard.
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RE: How big is your patch? - Veggie - 23-01-2022
(23-01-2022, 07:38 PM)Vinny Wrote:I wonder how much food 0.4 of a child needed?(23-01-2022, 06:16 PM)Veggie Wrote: According to the Allotment SocietyThe 10 rod,perches or poles was what the government in WW2 deemed to be a big enough space to feed a family with 2.4 children if intensively managed!
"An allotment is traditionally measured in rods (perches or poles), an old measurement dating back to Anglo-Saxon times. 10 poles is the accepted size of an allotment, the equivalent of 250 square metres or about the size of a doubles tennis court".
If you still work in old money, the SCAA say -".An allotment plot is normally 10 poles. 10 poles are 302.5 square yards.
One pole is an area 5.5 yards’ x 5.5 yards. This gives 160 poles to one acre, which is 16 plots of ten poles each to the acre"
Any the wiser? Thought not.
RE: How big is your patch? - Small chilli - 23-01-2022
We currently rent about 3/4 acre that includes the house, garage, sheds, kennels, parking area, orchard, veg patch, garden. Veg patch is 19m x 19m.
New plot is also 3/4 acre also includes houses, garage, sheds, parking area, wooded area, veg patch and garden. Only know the size of house & garage at moment.
RE: How big is your patch? - Proserpina - 23-01-2022
The back garden is around 125 square metres, but there's a greenhouse, shed, steps, and rockery/retaining wall taking up some of that space (as well as some extra paving slabs that will probably be going). I'm not sure if I'll keep the shed as I have a big garage that isn't easily accessible by car (even if I had one!) so there's no shortage of storage space - I suspect the shed is only there because my vendor and her husband got to the point where they couldn't carry the lawnmower up the garden anymore. There's also a bit of extra patio space by the house where I could squeeze some containers, as well as some space near the garage/carport where anything happy in partial shade could be in containers (there are quite a few containers of bulbs, a rose, ivy, and other things there already).
The front garden is around another 30 square metres but is north facing and by the road. I still reckon I can put it to good use
Edit: Google says that my total of 155 square metres is around a 30th of an acre. One day, I hope to get up to around a third of an acre, so I have a bit of a way to go. My Grandma's garden is around a third of an acre (rural NE Lincolnshire where the land is cheap!) and I think that would be a great size for a food forest/chicken run/wildlife-friendly garden.
RE: How big is your patch? - Veggie - 23-01-2022
House and garden plot is about half an acre but I only intensively garden the GHs - I play in the rest.
RE: How big is your patch? - Roitelet - 23-01-2022
2,500 square meters which includes 90 square meters of veg plot, potager as it is known here. The French like big gardens!!!