What do gardeners do when on holiday? They look at other peoples gardens of course. We went on holidays to the north of our state (Western Australia) in May this year, and found a community garden in Onslow. On Holiday May 2010 ( photo / image / picture from debbieteale's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from debbieteale's Garden ) May 2010 ( photo / image / picture from debbieteale's Garden ) raised beds ( photo / image / picture from debbieteale's Garden ) may 2010 ( photo / image / picture from debbieteale's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from debbieteale's Garden ) school area ( photo / image / picture from debbieteale's Garden ) kids plots ( photo / image / picture from debbieteale's Garden ) They've done a grand job! Don't you think? I'd love to see pics of other Allotments from other countries. Could anyone post some? Thanks.
Thanks for these fotos as well, Debbie. I am quite interested in seeing other allotments too. I found the use of the corrugated roofing very unique...and they make super-high raised beds. Easy to tend and harvest from, I'd imagine. I wonder if it's because there is poor soil there, or if they had access to relatively inexpensive roofing panels. The wavey form that the panels have makes the complex look very modern. I can see that the folks there are growing a nice variety of veg there. Thanks again. The Onslow folks did good, didn't they!
Interesting photos Debbie. We do not have allotment here. I am always interested to see photos of plants Sojerd, if you did not mentioned that the walls of the raised beds were made of roofing, I would have thought that it was used 200 litres drum
Great looking garden. I like the corrugated roofing for the raised beds too, I saw similar ones in a gardening mag but they used plain sheets of metal. We don't have allotments here either but there are a couple of community gardens that started up this year.
I too thought using the roofing was a great idea... really a great look. No allotments or community gardens around here either.
The corrugated iron is used also in making water tanks here in australia. We do get plenty of poly tanks, but this was the usual type of water tank. Sometimes they were lined with concrete to stop them from blowing away in a storm. I don't think it's that inexpensive any more, but it seems to have taken off here for use as raised beds. They're even available for sale in Bunnings hardware stores now. Gardening Australia is a television show, and they are even encouraging streets to put these along the verge of households as a sort of community garden, and cul de sac communities get together and garden together, etc. Can you imagine road verges lined with raised beds along houses?
