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Originally Posted by Moejoe
The allotment is a small portion of land 'allloted' from a bigger piece of land, sometimes with a shed on it, where men (and it is predominantly men) go to grow vegetables, sit around and generally while away time. Any piece of land might have thirty, forty allotments that make up the greater piece of land.
Here is a picture of a particularly pretty allotment:
Dad's usually have allotments, older uncles too. You can walk onto an allotment right now and it could be the 1950's all over again, nothing much has changed there. I don't know if any other country has an equivalent, but it seems to me as a very British thing.  |
And I thought it was a German thing
You still see them quite a lot, right accross from the apartment building where my mother lives they have a pretty good size garden area divided up into a number of these allotments.