This being Britain there are already some people complaining about the heat but I am enjoying it while it lasts. The Daily Mail (apologies, I didn't mean to read it, honest) did recently run a story about the wasteland southern England has become. Certainly my plants might not like it quite so much but they will have to lump it. So far there seems to be no threat of a hosepipe ban which is good as I have a lovely new hose that coils itself up again. Bliss - no more hoses snaking around the garden and sweating over buckled pipes.
I was in Berlin recently and was very taken with the now defunct airport, Templehof (in the picture above), which has been turned into an impromptu leisure park. The runways make amazing rollerskating, running, cycling and roller skiing (yes, that's right) arenas. In between that the land is used for kite flying, picnics and general lounging around. There are a few unofficial allotments which, unlike in the UK, do not seem that focussed on grow your own just colourful wildflowers mainly. There was even a nature crazy golf - with all the obstacles growing.
Templehof may be huge but no space is too small to grow things in. A neighbour down the road is using the patch of land outside his house which is shaded and with no soil to grow vegetables. In reclaimed containers he is growing a great variety of plants from seed. More power to him.
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