Allotment Cat Is Getting Really Brave

I was stupefied by your beautiful photos and by the size of your garden plots. Five years ago I moved from a major metropolis to a rural area, and our city’s ‘pea patches’ were dingy and cramped compared to your unbelievable gardens. Where I live now, our ‘community garden’ looks to be about 40 feet long and six feet wide – this, when we’re surrounded by hundreds of thousands of acres of virgin wilderness. Go explain...

Your gardens are astonishing, and I’m fascinated by what looks like the richness of your soil. I’ve tried to ramp up my own with fava bean, alfalfa, buckwheat and oat cover crops, but usually have to add horse manure – though I much prefer rabbit (which source, however, is 80 miles distant from where I live now).

I realize I’m on a website for cats, so will end with this.

Am not a ‘squash person ‘ – most squash tastes to me the way it sounds – but wonder if you’ve ever grown the Japanese winter squash Tetsukubota. You probably have, but - if not - give it a try baked with brown sugar and a dab of butter. You’ll think you’ve died and gone to Beulah Land.

Thank you again ever so much, and also many thanks for providing the other website – which looks like a winner. Have fun with your plants and your kitty-wees.

Best wishes,

S

Thank you so much for your comments about 'my' allotment cat. She is still visiting me every day but also wanders all over our allotment site. Today I spotted her quite a distance away from my plot where I feed her so I called her in the way I do when I put the food down and she followed me back to the plot!

Sylvia, our allotments does have a website but it is more for information about the site with lots of photos of plotholders and details of what we do. The address is www.growit.btck.co.uk (I hope this is allowed Michael) There is also an excellent forum called www.allotments4all.co.uk
where you can ask for advice.

Hope this helps,

Betty

Betty, hello ---

Your photos are spectacular,and you and your fellow gardeners sound like animal-lovers. I realize POC is a website for cats, but am wondering if your allotment has a website for gardeners. I'm slow in navigating the Net, but am searching for such a site in the British Isles. Am more interested in fairly substantial contributions than 50-word comments with smiley faces. Have a third of an acre on which I grow vegetables - not into flowers- and would greatly enjoy the insights of other gardeners.

If you know, perhaps, of any such site, I'd be grateful for its web address.

Best of luck with your beautiful ferals.

Sylvia

Hi Betty. She is so beautiful. I think by moving closer and washing just in front of you she shows a lot of confidence, almost like an invitation to get to know her. She just wants the friendship to evolve in her own time.
What I always notice when watching pictures of your allotment cats is how well fed and healthy they look. They are lucky having you and this peaceful haven.

Hello again Betty, it's lovely you keep updating us with your allotment cat stories and photos.
The calico one looks so relaxed, she must trust you a lot !

Hi Betty

Lovely pictures again; you have a knack!

She really is a beautiful cat, such lovely markings and clearly very relaxed.

What a bonny cat, I'm glad she has you for her guardian angel Betty, your keeping an eye on her and giving her extra rations will make all the difference, especially when the cold weather comes.