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What happens here?

The Quality Environment for Dartford (QED) Allotments Group will post a page on this web site for any allotment association or community garden involved in a Local Agenda 21 initiative anywhere in the UK - free of charge. We will also assist in locating access to the Internet via a nearby school or college to enable participants in this "virtual potting shed" to have their page "potted on" as a self-contained and locally controlled web site. Send text (written or on disk) - and optional photograph for scanning - to the group c/o 10 King Edward Avenue, Dartford, Kent DA1 2HZ, or e-mail to Richard.Wiltshire@btinternet.com.

 

Just sprouted in the QED Virtual Potting Shed ...

Growing on in the QED Virtual Potting Shed ...

Potted on from the QED Virtual Potting Shed:

 

 

Disclaimer: The views expressed within the QED Virtual Potting Shed carry no endorsement by QED or its constituent groups. Views critical of Local Agenda 21 or of participation by allotment or community gardeners in Local Agenda 21 initiatives are included in the interests of open and healthy debate.

What the papers say about the QED Virtual Potting Shed: Amateur Gardening magazine reviewed the Shed in its OnLine column on December 11, 1999. Things that AG liked included ...

  • Wealth of information.
  • Gets your association or project known on the internet.
  • Plenty of links.

Things that AG didn't like included ...

  • The site is "very text-heavy". True enough: associations and projects featured in the Shed have stories to tell.
  • The site "remains desperately in need of a bit of artistic flair". Mea culpa.

The review also contained the following defense of the appearance of the Shed from the QED website manager, Richard Wiltshire, as follows: "Many websites are slick, colourful, informative, and underpinned by a lot of money - but there are others which are useful and cheap to download. It might not be flashy but it's doing a real job for real gardeners". We hope that our visitors agree ...

Gardens Illustrated (posh!) also gives the Shed a friendly mention in its July/August 2000 issue. Thanks for that. And we are cited as a source of reference in Allotments: A Plot Holder's Guide, produced by the DTLR (now ODPM) in 2002.

[Last updated: May 8, 2005]

 

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