Celebration of Allotments 2020

Each year, in October, we get together for a prize-giving ceremony and to celebrate all of the fantastic growing efforts that have taken place across the allotments of Glasgow.

Since we’ve spent much of this season so far in lockdown, we’ve decided to pre-emptively shift our annual celebration online.

We’ve turned it into an ongoing gallery of photos, paintings, pieces of writing and any other type of media that higlights just what allotments mean to us – especially in a time like this.

Submit to the celebration gallery

Include some info about who you are and which plots you come from, then contact us via email (GAFForum@gmail.com) or our social media accounts.

two girls on an allotment; one playing with a water gun hose attachment
A gate sign with Covid-19 advice
A watercolour painting of a plot
A watercolour painting of a plot
A photo of an allotmnet from ouside the perimeter fence
Let's Not Lose The Plot! A poem. Plotholders surely don’t want to lose their allotment Which despite lots of hard work gives them great enjoyment No matter the season there is always something to do Useful tasks keep them busy all the year through There is no fixed pattern, each will do their own thing And to their site their bright ideas will bring Some on the land construct an arable farm Others think an orchard won’t do any harm! But most plotholders respond to the challenge To cultivate the earth maintaining a balance Between flowers, fruit and veg in varieties galore For immediate consumption or for winter store Their hut is vital to the plot’s operation For storage of tools to avoid transportation But such cabins are useful for purposes social To provide a gathering space at one’s disposal Of course we cannot gather due to covid-19 And right now we hanker for what might have been Meantime our endeavours are a solo act As we don’t want to risk our respiratory tract All plotholders want to preserve the environment Taking into account all the enlightenment We have received from those with concern for our globe The warming an equal threat as that nasty microbe So let’s continue to enjoy the fruits of the earth And value our plots for all they are worth And for natures’ gifts we would all give a thought Whatever befalls let us not lose the plot Ken Fisher, Plot 15, Kelvinside Allotments
Plants growing across a trellis
Veg grown in rows in a raised bed
Three people standing apart with a measuring stick between them