Reply To: Guinea-pig litter, lost allotments, container growing

[sue_s lost plot]

You’re most welcome Charles; glad it is of relevance to you at the moment. I am trying to persuade the tenant gardeners that there is another approach worth trying. Of course it is only year 1, but I’m very optimistic so far! Obviously we are not going to feed the five-thousand with these pots! But I can’t understand why the butterflies are avoiding the area? Perhaps they can smell plastic! Or maybe it is a bad year for pollination in general; I’ve notice the set rate is not too impressive on my tomatoes. Of course we gardeners may be losing our allotments, but with the loss of hundreds of fruit trees and soft fruit bushes, hedgerow herbage etc the bees are losing out too, and at a time when they are struggling… . SUE