National Allotment Week
National Allotment week in the UK this year is 10th August to 16th August 2020.
National Allotment week was initiated by the National Allotment Society. It was originally started in 2002. It was originally started to celebrate all things allotment. It’s about shouting out how much allotments play in peoples lives and making others aware of how they help in healthier lifestyles, making new friends in the allotment communities, and obviously growing tasty food which tastes 100 times delicious than shop bought produce. The interest in growing your own produce is growing every year. It seems to have picked up even more since the corona virus outbreak as stores are reporting increase in sales of seeds.
The theme for 2020 National Allotment Week is Growing Food for Health and Well-being. Usually to celebrate National Allotment Week, associations are asked to hold open days on the allotment sites to help promote the benefits of gardening and to come and meet other plot holders. Due to corona virus in August the government set rules will probably still apply for social distancing so this would not be a good idea this year.
This year the National Allotment Society has asked that we help celebrate allotments every week by sharing our stories online and with each other how gardening and being on the allotment help us. They want stories from around the UK of what you are doing during lock down, if you are helping water someones plot if they are not allowed out due to being vulnerable, are you growing food for the neighbors? Share your story online and spread the happiness of allotments with one another
One thing that gardening helps a lot of people with is mental health. Gardening is great at dealing with anxiety, depression and other mental health issues. You are out in the fresh air, away from social media, television. You can either sit back and enjoy listening to the birds or get your hands dirty with weeding.
The joy you get from sowing that first seed, seeing it germinate, caring for it, nurturing it and seeing it through to harvest. Then the main thing eating it and tasting how delicious it is.
You can find out more about National Allotment week by visiting the National Allotment Society Website here
Allotment and Kitchen Garden Book
Are you starting an allotment or planning on growing your own fruit, vegetables, herbs, and flowers in a kitchen garden? If so we highly recommend the book Allotment Month By Month. This does exactly what it does on the cover to help you with what you should be doing in the allotment and kitchen garden each month. Below you can see the link for Amazon where you can purchase the book directly. This book is extremely popular with all allotment holders as you will read in the reviews:-
You can check out all the allotment and kitchen garden books we recommend here.