Allotment gardening provides a wide range of benefits to communities and the environment. Apart from providing low cost food, they also provide valuable recreational opportunities involving healthy activity and social contacts. Allotments are significant to our green spaces and provide habitats for many forms of wildlife.
Taking on an allotment plot is not all hard work, it can have many advantages; providing fresh homegrown vegetables, fruit and flowers for you and your family, free from artificial additives and at a fraction of the cost in a supermarket or greengrocer.
The rental charge is £15.00 per annum
The sites have a water supply
To lease an allotment plot or enquire about availability please contact us.
Allotment sites
The Council has a statutory requirement to provide allotments for the public and we currently manage two sites.
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Allotment |
Address |
Facilities |
Availability |
| Castlegreen |
Castlegreen Street,
Dumbarton |
Water |
Waiting List |
| Round Riding Road |
Round Riding Road,
Dumbarton |
Water |
Waiting List |
Handy hints for your allotment
- If you have no tools, buy only the essentials - spade, fork, hoe, rake, and trowel.
- For your back's sake, do not rush your digging, it's best to start in the autumn.
- If a plot is badly weeded over, it is best to skim the top off and then to dig it.
- Make sure you remove roots of plants such as docks, dandelions and couch grass as these will grow again. Breaking up the roots in the ground will produce even more plants.
- Start a compost heap by making a wooden framework to contain all vegetable material, which will rot down. You will probably need a second one - one composting and one being filled. We can provide a compost bin, which is free of charge to WDC residents. For more information, please visit the composting webpage.
- Do not start sowing seeds in the open too early, as many seeds are lost through setting in cold, wet ground. April/May is the best time when the ground warms up a bit.
- You will need to water plants that are being transplanted, but watering of most plants once they have been established is generally of no help. There is no substitute for a good drop of rain wetting the surface with a light watering only encourages a lazy root system.
- Aim to get a succession of crops throughout the year.
- Plant some flowers to make you plot more colourful.
