{"id":143739,"date":"2024-04-14T15:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-courgettes-were-so-good-last-year-i-got-a-tattoo-of-one-life-on-a-birmingham-allotment\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T15:18:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:18:21","slug":"the-courgettes-were-so-good-last-year-i-got-a-tattoo-of-one-life-on-a-birmingham-allotment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-courgettes-were-so-good-last-year-i-got-a-tattoo-of-one-life-on-a-birmingham-allotment\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The courgettes were so good last year, I got a tattoo of one\u2019: life on a Birmingham allotment"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nA city of welly-wearers, Birmingham has more allotments than any other UK local authority \u2013 some of its keen plotholders tell us whyOn Dads Lane, where several Birmingham suburbs meet, there is a gap in the houses, no wider than a driveway. If you didn\u2019t know what was hiding in there, you would walk straight past. It is a brisk, bright Sunday in late March, and behind the gate, a narrow road stretches out into a busy haven of growth and greenery. The city centre is less than four miles away, but it might as well be on the moon. After a long, wet winter, the sun is out, people are digging, mowing and cutting, and everyone has something to say about the badgers.\u201cMen\u2019s piss!\u201d I\u2019m having coffee in the pavilion with John Beynon, a warm, 71-year-old Welshman, who has been chair of the allotments since last summer (\u201cI\u2019m not a president! That makes me think I\u2019m a Trumpian!\u201d), and secretary Bryan Foster, 60, who opens his jacket to reveal a COR-BYN T-shirt, in the Run-DMC font. The allotments got national lottery funding a few years ago, and they put up this hub, which will host the monthly Sunday afternoon poetry reading later, as well as a compost toilet next door. They also paved the road and built two disability plots. Apparently, the only thing that will deter a hungry badger from nibbling the crops is men\u2019s urine. They joke that they might start selling it in bottles at the next open day.Emma Rabbitt, 42, and her children Patrick, 14, Lydia, 12, and Seren, 11 Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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