Moving on a month down the track how is it all going, well the gardens are huge it totally looks like a jungle and things are starting to naturally die off.
The families have not been in so much over the Christmas period which is understandable however the veg continue to grow of course and the bugs continue to eat the plants so I suffer a dilemma every time I go down to the munts. (Did I tell you that’s what we refer to them as, because one of my staff is English and she explained that’s how the word allotments has been abbreviated over time). My dilemma is to look after feed and watch over the gardens or to leave them and wait for the families to do there own thing. It is the latter I must adopt because if I don’t we are not teaching them to truly look after their own gardens, and if they are to continue at home they need to know what to do themselves. It does upset me when I go down and find they need attention and are not getting it. There seems to be a definite swing to just harvesting rather than looking after. I post info for each family each week with what to do and how to do it and we all makes ourselves availableIt’s only two more weeks now until we complete this first allotment and have a weeks break to redo the gardens before the next lot come in so I best not stress about this one and get on with doing the next lot differently. I really need to sort out the mentors because they are the ones who could be driving the whole thing and taking
