Winning a London Garden Allotment

Re:Winning a London Garden Allotment by stevage on Sunday July 31, 2022 @04:02AM (#32294087)

> Once designed to feed a family of four, at ten rods, or poles, an Anglo-Saxon unit of measurement—roughly two hundred and fifty square metres—they now can be half that size, a quarter, or even less.

Wow, so 60 sqm is still typical? Around here a typical community garden plot would be maybe 4 to 6 sqm.

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Re:Winning a London Garden Allotment by Glawen on Sunday July 31, 2022 @06:21AM (#32294586)

You barely stand on 6 sqm, what do you grow?

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Re:Winning a London Garden Allotment by erikpukinskis on Sunday July 31, 2022 @12:47PM (#32296784)

It’s basically a single vegetable bed. At that size there would be paths in between that are community maintained.

Although perhaps they meant 6 msq

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