Has gardening ever been core to Britishness?
Last post 23-06-2008 1:26 AM by schol49. 18 replies.
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28/08/2007 04:39 PM
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- Dai Dibber
- Welsh Coast
- 17 Aug 2007
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[color=#000000]Allotments cannot be in decline, the trouble is that many local authorities are compulsary purchasing allotment sites to build houses on. For the first time since the war vegetable seed sales last year were larger than flower seed sales. I am in an organic gardening society, and most of our members are women with allotments. [/color]
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28/08/2007 05:15 PM
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- Digger
- Northern UK
- 18 Jul 2005
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I don't think allotments are in decline either, but as for local authorities removing allotments for building, it's a crime literally and the local authority agenda 21 officer should be hanged for allowing it to happen. Allotments have now been classed as "green space amenity" land and before the amenity can be removed from the local population the local authority (in this case) must be able to demonstrate beyond all doubt that the amenity is not required by the local people. The authorities depend on people not knowing the ins and outs of agenda 21 etc.. recently our local evil authority tried to take some allotments for the cemetry, without offering an alternative piece of land and without consulting the areas agenda 21 officer or consulting the allotment holders. Needless to say i turned up at the area committee meeting of local councillors and got 5 minutes to speak i informed the meeting of their obligations under agenda 21, and asked them to provide evidence that the people no longer wanted the allotments, which is difficult to prove when there were no vacant allotments and over 150 people on the waiting list!! the allotments are still in operation and the cemetry plans axed.
digger 
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22/06/2008 12:06 PM
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- Marge
- Oop North
- 22 Jun 2008
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Of course gardening is at the core of Britishness! Britain is known for being green and full of parks and gardens, people mowing lawns, the lady with the secateurs sniping the roses, and a thousand ways to deal with slugs and snails 
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23/06/2008 01:26 AM
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- schol49
- Oban Argyll
- 28 Aug 2005
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Hi Marge this is rather than an ancient idea, instead relatively modern, it was not as most of Our "British Identity" down to the Victorians. It arose out of the Horror of The Carnage of the "War to End All Wars" also known as the First World War. There Arose The Idea that we must bring a Normality back to Those Men Who had Survived, by giving them A Home Fit For Heroes. Simultaneously another Idea was emerging that Towns should be built to a Plan which Led to Town Planning and Welwyn Garden City. Others saw this and said Why should we too not have our own gardens and so where Napoleon had called us a Land of Shopkeepers Britain instead became a Land of Gardeners
Running Wild in The Wilds of Argyll
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