NFR: The Vetch Field

[SP]

Countryfile (BBC1 7:20 Sunday night) are running a slot on the current use of the Vetch Field, allotments or similar.  Might be interesting.

[Berserker]

What's a vetch field got to do with allotments?

[SouthfieldWhite]

What's a vetch field got to do with allotments?

[Logicalman]

Entry from Wiki (ok, so its the best I could find to provide an insight):::

Demolition
Demolition work on the ground began on 31 January 2011. The work was predicted to last four to six months. The famous North Bank was the first stand to be pulled down.
Initially there was some controversy as to the whereabouts of the centre stand's clock - on arrival, the contractors noticed it was missing. It was later confirmed in the South Wales Evening Post that it was in the safe hands of a group of people angered by the Council's neglect of such Vetch relics as the clock.

As of May 2011 no full stands remain and all the floodlights have been removed, including the East Stand's unique, bizarre floodlight. By the beginning of June 2011, with the club promoted to the Premier League and passing what's left of the ground on a victory parade, work has begun on the outside walls of the old stadium.
The centre circle, however, will remain, as this is where people's ashes have been spread.

In August 2011 it was confirmed by Swansea Council that the Vetch would be used temporarily for allotments. Coordinated by local artist Owen Griffiths on the historic site of the Vetch Football field, an urban utopia is being created on the site, in collaboration with the local residents.

[Berserker]

How can it be temporily for allotments? I put in fixed beds, old carpet paths,  put in a shed, plus long term fruit buses etc. I'd be pretty miffed if I could only have mine for a year.
Mind you on the TV they generally only show posh allotments, not like where I live where you basically get a strip of uncultivated ground and then make it suitable yourself for growing things. Also old boys gather round the water troughs to chat but there is no communal living, utopia type palava.

[KingstonWhite]

Vetch


A widely distributed scrambling herbaceous plant of the pea family, which is cultivated as a silage or fodder crop.