Very Upset

What a way to start the New Year.  Had a call from the plot secretary yesterday to say could we get down to the plot to take down the polytunnel as they were heading our direction with a mini digger to try and stop flooding.  Allotment is not flooding currently, it has flooded in the past as you may have seen from previous blogs.  This is normally due to us being at the bottom of the hill so lots of water drains our way.  Not normally a problem.  It floods.  It subsides.  No damage really done.  So we head down to the allotment to find that the polytunnel has already been taken down but not much else going on.  Mini digger filling in a big hole in the bank further up the allotment site that a plot tenant in his wisdom had decided to make..... this was allowing water from a drainage calvert to divert onto the allotment site.







So we went down there again today and were met with a scene of destruction.  My kale.  Gone.  Sprouts.  All gone.  Compost bins that Simon spent 2 weeks building.  Gone.   Shed has been moved. And for what?  Apparently very little.  The digger has been on the plot attacking the bank.  The bank to the left of the plot however is still the same height, just nearer to the culvert and not so wide.  The fencing to the top of the plot has been taken down leaving a minor bank with no protection from the culvert at all, guess we won't be taking our grandson down there anymore, far too dangerous.  And the water in the culvert?  Not going anywhere as the exit is blocked (off site so we cant clear it) so the water is still there.  Same place, same height.  The water from the culvert behind the shed had never actually flooded onto the plot anyway.

Same place as picture above..... after digger has been.  Now just plain dangerous.



And the area where Simons compost bins were?



Whole area flattened but no higher than before.

   

   

Managed to harvest some kale and brussels yesterday, as well as the parsnips, despite the weather and the mud everywhere, not knowing that it would all be destroyed today.  It is so upsetting to think of all the rest of the kale, brussels, cabbages and turnips being mashed into the mud by a digger when I grew each plant from seed and have nurtured them since last March.  And the comment has been made that we cant do anything with the bare land at the moment until it has been decided whether that will make up a new plot!  Excuse me!!! That is our plot!  A couple of days ago I had veg and a polytunnel on it!

Now we have been left with a hell of a mess.  Feeling very despondent.