Hi Tabtab13...
Interesting point you have made in regards to growing your own veg/flowers?
I personally just havent the time to spend in the garden,cutting grass picking weeds etc, but when I was alot younger I loved to pick weeds, pick the veg out of the ground as we had our very own vegetable garden....yes it was a garden as we had all sorts growing such as Potatoes, carrotts, Tomatoes, runner beans, blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, gooseberries, we had lots more just cannot name them all at the mo.! even had a small apple tree.
Those were the days!
I buy my vegetables from Thornes now as to the supermarket because they are much cheaper for one, and you can buy just what you need without them going off before they are all used.
And walking passed there today I don't know if anyone else has noticed but they are selling Purple cauliflowers, yes I said purple! never seen any thing like these before.!
But there veg taste so different to the supermarket vegetables, and as for the carrotts you can buy these with all the green leaves on something which you don't see in supermerkets today.
Flowers....umm not one for growing or plants for that matter, what ever I do they just don't seem to last!
I think what I am saying now is that if I were to start a little vegetable plot ( I emphasize on the word little) I just would not have the time to devote to it, but also I would have to be in the right frame set of looking after it, which believe me would not be very often,
as for vacant allotment plots as far as I know all of our allotments which the nearest ones to me would be in Heamoor, and I don't think that there are any free ones going if you know what I mean, they are very much worked on a daily basis. I don't know of any competitions going on except that the PHA hold an annual competion for the best looking garden thats to do with flowers.
Do you have an eye for gardening then?