Polish Peculiarities: "RODOS" Polish Community Gardens

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Let's take a trip today to a Polish family community garden (ROD) to see how Polish people relax and play on these unique parcels of land. I;m looking forward to reading anything you have to share with us!
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[@peepkagirl1]

I'm an American of Polish descent. Up to age 8, we lived in a Polish neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio. Many of the people kept their yards just as pristine, with lots of flowers, as the ones in this video. Even at that young age, I could see how hard-working they were and wondered what made then so industrious! Most of these people have passed away, their children moved on to the suburbs, and the neighborhoods have become slums today, but the memory of that time is still with me and I'm glad its lived on in Poland.

[@k_ffeine]

Wow, I'm in love with Poland, what a beautiful place...I hope go one day. Greetings from Ecuador!

[@ulllaaaklara]

My grany had a działka and we used to spend there whole summer. Chilling on a hammock, fresh fruits straight from a tree. Best time ever.

[@AmiRa-wj9jt]

Oh yes, I love that we have such places in our country in virtually every city. An ideal case for people living in a block of flats who don`t have their own land where they could even grow vegetables or spend time in the garden. Therefore, I believe that it is a great solution and I would like to buy such a plot myself. If you are an introvert, you don`t like spending money on traveling abroad... it is the perfect solution for those who want to spend time outdoors, among greenery, taking care of your little piece of land (but sufficient) where you can spend your holidays, your free days , organize barbecues with family, hang out in a tent, work in the garden, cook, DIY or just relax after a busy day at work. A safe place to forget the daily "rat race". I'm glad you decided to tell about it :)

[@maciekszymanski6898]

Firstly, before the IIWW 2/3 of Polish population lived on the villages and they were engaged in agriculture. The social changes during communism made many to move to the towns and cities. But they still wanted to cultivate the land, even then it was tiny strip of ground. Secondly, at the same time there were shortcomings of food so it was very wise to grow own vegetables and fruits or breed chickens, rabbits, or even a pig. The allotments are still popular thou they became more a hobby and form of recreation rather then source of cheap food.

[@wizardanerik]

my grandma used to keep rabbits on hers, althought that was long before I was born , but she still grown food there, every year we had more zuccinis and tomatoes we knew what to do with and every year she'd made jam from all the fruits she grown there

[@AsterFoz]

Cheap food? Food yes, but not cheap. You need to pay for the allotment, buy tools, pay water and electricity bills (some gardens have no electricity at all and water is not clean enough to drink so you have to bring drinking water from home), seeds and anything you want to plant is not free too, than you need to feed your plants so you buy a pile of horse shit, your time is also a cost and in the end you need to transport (gas or a bus ticket is not free) your cucumbers home and eat everything before they rot OR save them somehow (usually by fermentating them) and this is also not free - gas, electricity, water, spices, jars, your time... This is very time and money consuming hobby that gives lot of satisfaction and good food but definaetly not cheap.

[@kinczyta]

Oh wow, born and bred in Poland and I've never heard the term RODOS before, I've always called them simply 'działki'

[@Amaryllis1961]

Rodzinne Ogrody Działkowe Otoczone Siatką - RODOS; this funny description is rather very recent; when somebody asks: "where you go on holidays" you can answer proudly - Rodos. But it has nothing in common with Greek island....

[@miwoj]

"działki" or "ogródki działkowe" also never heard of rodos

[@Amaryllis1961]

RODOS it is funny unofficial name of allotments; Polish use this name as a joke. RODOS= Rodzinne Ogrody Działkowe Otoczone Siatką = Polish Family Allotments Sourrended by Fencig Mesh.

[@kinczyta]

@@Amaryllis1961 I recommend watching the video before commenting, you seem unaware that the video has already covered all that

[@zurugar1530]

@@miwoj Yeah yeah, these days the youngsters hardly heard about anything :D

[@Piwny80]

Właśnie siedzę na działce, rzucam psu piłkę a tu film wjechał :)

[@nohorelliscaballero219]

I live in Kraków for a year now and I was wondering about these areas every time I checked Google maps satellite view. Thank you for the full explanation, it’s really interesting and something really peculiar but nice of Poland 🇵🇱♥️

[@colinvanoverdijk5855]

As a Canadian I like your American Spin on things. A lot of my 14 years in Poland, yes, as an English teacher too, are similar to yours. However, different. I bought my działka in Kraków in 2019 before the pandemic. This episode is almost spot on! Though there is a huge difference between your time in Czes. and mine. Keep the vids coming!

[@matkaz2534]

You didn't mention one important thing. You can build small house (up to 35 m2) and live there from time to time (You can for example live there during summer, but u can't live whole year/ You need a documented place for living). Also thing with pricing isn't so simple- sometimes there are free garden in some RODs, and You can have it for little price- i got my in city of Wrocław for under a 1000zł- but it was really bushy and i needed alot of work to clean it. Another thing is that price of gardens grew alot during pandemic.

[@venusb248]

I think these are called dzialkas - allotments! I spent all my childhood i there. And boy I am profoundly grateful for this experience. My great grandma, grandma and my parents had and still have them. Because of that I love fruits and veg in my diet! X

[@bozenkank9720]

My parents used to have ogródek outside the Katowice center, it was fun...Thanks for sharing, I completely forgot about RODOS 😉

[@mariel9385]

WOW!! This is the first time you have shown me something about Poland that I never heard of. What an amazing idea!! Poles have so much ingenuity. We do have a few community gardens in my city, but unfortunately, they usually get vandalized by individuals who do not respect all the hard work that people put into them.

[@LoveMyPoland]

We've got beautiful ones here in Częstochowa 🤪

[@donotfreeze]

We all know who vandalizes them.

[@worldcitizen123]

Which country are you writing from?

[@misioutah1973]

I guess regulations may be different for each community. My wife’s family had a dzialka and it was their own. They had a permanent,built on a foundation cottage. Open fires, and permanent fire pits were allowed. Love the video,though. Living abroad,I miss dzialki,where,surrounded by city’s grind,serenity could be found.

[@dr_axie1106]

The thing about pigeons is similar in nature to bee having prohibition - potential health risks to people with sensitivities such as allergies or weaker lung diseases resistance. While pigeons are highly intelligent, very clean animals prone to a lot (and I mean A LOT) of pruning and with exceptionally resistant immune system to most bird carried diseases diseases (mostly they catch things from humans not the other way around), the main way for them to pass on any viruses and things like that is trough their poop. You'd have to be around waste produced by about a 100 of them daily to catch something, but a precaution is always a good thing. Especially in public spaces

[@Notyourdaddy83]

The rules on RODOS are in bigger cities I think. My family lives in small town, we do Grill/bbq and it’s not prohibited. We can burn leafs and branches but of course not trash (but some people doesn’t care and burn everything). That is a nice piece of land to grow our own veggies, to get a tan or just take a rest and relax.

[@marthamika7372]

Russell, they have these little lots in suburbs of Illinois but they are maybe as small as 9 by 12 feet, for people that live in condo's, beautiful gardens in Poland

[@grzegorzdziedzic9592]

we have one, will come in handy i following years

[@magorzataprochnicka4255]

My in-laws have a beautiful "działka" with a small house. The house has a tiny living room/bedroom in it, a kitchen, a shower and a toilet. They are allowed to stay there for summertime, which they do from time to time, any many people do it too. There are a lot of different flowers, a bit of berries and a decent grill. Honestly, if you live in the city, something like that is a must have ;).

[@maggiekowalczyk3914]

I have one as well. During communism they provided people with food. That was very important. I was a child then but I remember that one of our neighbours had pigs. Meat was difficult to buy then. I am sure it was illegal but Poles always knew how to disobey the rules.

[@nonperson22]

Russell ogrodnik. Ale gdzie są spodnie ogrodniczki ja się pytam 😉

[@januszlepionko]

Jak to gdzie? Na ogrodniczce!

[@madziarka1582]

A wiecie jakie było moje zaskoczenie, kiedy poraz pierwszy przyjechałam do Londynu (podczas pierwszej inwazji po wstąpieniu Polski do UE😆) , że tam też mają takie ogródki 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@hasppl9005]

Nie wiem jak w Houston ale w Farmington, CT miasto tez ma wydzielony duży teren po byłej farmie i co roku można wynająć za 90$ działke na sezon. Działki sa co roku po sezonie sprzątane a na wiosnę przygotowane na następny sezon. Ostatnio widzę działki ROD we Wrocławiu za 40tys zł. Chyba trochę przesada.

[@przemekkamieniarz]

@@hasppl9005 Jeśli mówisz, że 40 tys. to dużo to postaw taki mały domek i się przekonasz ile on kosztuje wraz z urządzeniem go o pracy w samym ogrodzie nie wspomnę. Sam materiał na tych działkach nie raz przekracza wartość 100tyś

[@Dadas0560]

Nope, decades ago that was not the idea. Decades ago they were called "Pracownicze Ogrody Działkowe" and people, basically grew vegetables and fruits in them. If someone was lucky enough to use one (not own) they simply had more food.

[@LoveMyPoland]

Yeah? I've got some different stories over here...

[@Dadas0560]

@@LoveMyPoland I'm 62, I know what I'm talking about. The idea was to provide families with a small piece of "farming" land. This land was usually provided by the place one worked at. In communism, there was very little private ownership. The plots were simply state owned and people were allowed to use them for gardening. And they were allowed to set up a small shed, but not for living purposes. With time, as the system changed, they also transformed into something a bit different.

[@LoveMyPoland]

@@Dadas0560 Oh I believe you, friend, thx 💪

[@elfeintwentyfives1620]

@@LoveMyPoland stories varied according to the region.for example my father had 2 plots on warsaw one was located in west bank of visula river about 8 km or so south from old town...(at least i think that is how far it was it had been 40 years) and he could not grow any fruit trees but could grow vegitables and bushes for currrants and gooseberries(agrest) and streawberries(poziomki) etc. in second one was in wola section of warsaw which was bigger and the place was more structured you could have fruit bearing trees but they had to be planted at certain distances and places so most of the trees ended up giving shade along the paths as well as for people to pick fruit in season ...it was fun to just walk through the paths like in a park and pick plus apples sour cherries pears and such. i also remember some one actually made a plot that was open to any one and they grew mushrooms kurki in particular. and you could have a portable bbq but rules were rather strict and especially over the weekend there was usually a foot patrol by milicja to enforce the rule. funny thing about those plots even during hard food crises in 80s not a lot of theft was happening. also a lot of milicjant had a plot usually in that same area and a lot of them got to know them and became friends and had competitions to see who could grow stuff better...

[@cez_kor]

@@Dadas0560 why so rude grandpa? 🤨

[@tekla5487]

My grandpa used to have such a garden when I was growing up (he got it as farewell gift from his employer upon retirement in 1980s). He had a real farm over there, with tons of fruits and veggies that my grandma preserved in various ways and we ate it all year round.

[@wiessiew9853]

In Denmark they are called COLONY gardens.

[@ulysses1685]

Nie można palić ognisk? My mieliśmy działkę i wszyscy palili liście w ogniskach. Ten słodki zapach liści z drzew owocowych kojarzy mi się właśnie z dzieciństwem.

[@przemekkamieniarz]

Nie można już palić ognisk bo jest ocipienie klimatu

[@wadysawkostrzewski8557]

I have one like this and it rocks! each "ROD" has its own regulations

[@carlslater7492]

We visited my cousins in Mlawa a few years ago (fantastic trip!) .... He had a pigeon house with oh a couple hundred birds... who knew pigeons were a thing in Poland

[@elfeintwentyfives1620]

well they are in some places...but that is because they are also known as emergency food supply. i still recall stories of my grandparents talking about that during ww2 especially in the cities

[@catchapl]

@@elfeintwentyfives1620 what an utter bullshit xD an emergency supply of food from the pedigree pigeons xD Some of them cost a fortune xD Pigeons were eaten in medieval times by monks as those were not really considered meat xD People during the war can eat a wooden table or dogs and rats and if you have pigeons in captivity you are in trouble as these can be used for communication xD

[@AffidavidDonda]

@@catchapl I lived in a small town outside Warsaw as a kid and I remember a lady shouting from a window of a communal house something like "Jarek, bring a pigeon for a rosol". And Jarek grabbed one from a pigeon house and bit his head off. So yes, pigeons were a food supply, I do not know about emergency. Just a smaller chicken.

[@elfeintwentyfives1620]

@@catchapl so...you lived through wwII then? cats dogs rats were on the menu during WWII in the cities but hey enjoy history as you like it

[@Ntwadumela1]

​@@elfeintwentyfives1620 Cats are still on the menu in Switzerland. No kidding! kzbin.info/www/bejne/qISYY6x9oqZnrtE

[@nonperson22]

Gdzie jedziesz na wakacje ? Na Rodos 😉

[@michamarkowski2204]

My late grandparents "had" such ROD outside of my hometown. They had pidgeons, chickens and bunnies there :) And of course vegetables and fruits.

[@pawelriken]

Great job Mate. Superb topic.

[@SuiGenerisAbbie]

In Seattle, we have the potential to garden communally. The plots we can sign up for, gardens are called P-patches, oddly enough. Not sure why. These were quite popular in the 70’s, mostly.

[@elfeintwentyfives1620]

please tell me not chad like community

[@piotrowicki_7903]

Rodzinne Ogródki Działkowe Ogrodzone Siatką - byłem, polceam :)

[@MrCargool]

Great video as usual. Can't wait for the videos from the trip to the US. Have a good time!

[@KatarzynaG1505]

Super ! Dzięki.

[@utahdan231]

Thanks for sharing. Very interesting and really neat.

[@tgg1765]

I think these garden rules vary from one location to another. I've seen fire pits and grills made of brick and people having fires. Perhaps that no one cared?

[@janek-by8px]

It is also worth saying that most of this gardens were created by workplaces in the People's Republic of Poland for employees to rest - FOR FREE. This is one of few positive feature of communism. My great-grandfather got a garden from the company - LOT (aircraft) and we still use this garden, even though my great-grandparents and grandparents are no more. When my sister and I were little, we spent almost the entire summer there, my mother also with a break to go to a FREE camp paid for by the WORKPLACE.

[@bqrl445]

Keep the videos coming! They are enjoyable.

[@Pinzpilot101]

dzialki?? they also have them in Germany and UK (but in UK you can't have a little house there...just a lawn and some land given over to growing things.

[@aven7gg213]

it's quite popular jn eu but not is us

[@EWAMILENAP]

Uwielbiam ten odcinek!👼🐻💕

[@bladawiec]

Jest taki dowcip jak dwie pchły rozmawiają gdzie były na wakacjach. Ja byłam na RODOS, a ty? A ja na krecie.

[@worldcitizen123]

😂😂👍👍

[@Theflowerjoasia]

😊

[@EWAMILENAP]

👍👏👌Super temat!

[@ebarteldes]

You should make a video about those summer homes in places like Lake Wlodawa… I had the opportunity (2 actually) to spend some time in one of them, they’re rustic and simple, but gorgeous nevertheless

[@magdalenag.1736]

3:34 beatiful 😀

[@WolfKenneth]

The thing is you aren't owner of that garden, land ownership of those plots is complicated thing there's separate bill "Ustawa od ROD" and generally you lease the land with restrictions to what you can do with it and you are limited to only one small plot per person.

[@user-vc5gb3bd4e]

I’d like to see this concept here in America. If more Americans ate more fruits and vegetables, it would do wonders for their health. Over-processed and chemical additives such as MSG have had disastrous effects on the American’s diet leading to excess weight gain, cancers, and Alzheimer’s/dementia. Thank you for sharing Russell!

[@elfeintwentyfives1620]

not going to happen today especially in suburbs...people just hate one another to point of spite especially on east coast

[@cherylk.2474]

I'm in Southern California, and I have a small garden plot in my community. I love gardening, it really helps to reduce stress. I have fabulous tomatoes this year, and a lot of zucchini, some kale, watermelon, flowers. This must be in the DNA, as my grandparents came from Tarnow, my grannie had fabulous gardens around her Chicago home. In CA, my father grew citrus around our home. I now have a grapefruit tree in my plot which I named after him, the best grapefruit ever! I will come to Poland, and will try to visit Rodos.

[@TroPtyN]

Mieszkasz z żoną w Częstochowie? Super, ja pochodzę z tego miasta, ale od lat mieszkam w Warszawie. :)

[@pawel115]

My buddy got one Andrzej too but they are called ogródek or działka

[@SuiGenerisAbbie]

Russell, we have missed your video content, lately. Just saying. 😉

[@LoveMyPoland]

I regret that I have had too little time recently 😭

[@SuiGenerisAbbie]

@@LoveMyPoland You are very kind to apologise. Your fans miss your content, that is all.

[@elfeintwentyfives1620]

@@LoveMyPoland please tell me that that cleaning lady from tour school is still not holding a grudge and you are not doing penence she set you up to do

[@LoveMyPoland]

@@elfeintwentyfives1620 She avoids me like the plague, ha 😂

[@elfeintwentyfives1620]

@@LoveMyPoland russ still be very careful and do not anatagonize her...in long run she could become a best friend you may have..

[@pixpl8637]

Well - the name "RODOS" is a kind of joke. Formal name is "ROD" (R-odzinne O-grody D-ziałkowe, Family Community Gardens in english). When you add only two letters more, you receive "RODOS" - the polish name of Rhodes Island in Greece. So, if somebody asks you: "Where did you spend your holidays?", you can answer: "I was on RODOS", that means: "I was nowhere, just spent holiday in my family garden".

[@catchapl]

thank you for sharing, you would see that if you watch the video :)

[@derunkrautyeeter2593]

I can only recommend renting such a small garden to anyone who lives in a big city and has a lot of stress. Gardening, whether growing vegetables and fruit or just flowers and cutting bushes gives you so much joy in life. to be in close contact with nature, to see how something that you have brought out with your own hands thrives. Smell the different scents, hearing the buzzing of bees, bumblebees and other insects. it's just something nice and relaxed. If you know someone who does something like this, ask if you could help out from time to time and experience it first hand :D

[@NiejakiPanBanan]

In my home city you can make fire on ROD, but not in spring and summer becouse it deters pollinators.

[@JanR210]

See you the next episode!

[@Braenn666]

Actually since not so long ago you can "inherit" ROD - after owner dies their descendants or spouse can "inherit" lease without loosing particular plot.

[@LoveMyPoland]

I stand in amazement at how frequently laws change in this country. Thanks for the info 🙂

[@monikasturm2575]

We have a garden in our back yard here in Houston. The heat has been murder on our veggies this summer. We've been trying to create a group in Kingwood to set up a community garden but people aren't interested out of fear someone will come in and ruin it for fun...😑

[@LoveMyPoland]

I'm so sorry to hear about that 😞

[@CieplinskiPawel]

1:12 *Yes,* I was hoping to hear this! Usually in English it's *Allotment* Gardens. We do *a lot* there:))) Thank you for mentioning! *YOU CAN NOT OWN THOSE!!!* As you've mentioned location can make the property *very* valuable. That's why we have special legislation to protect them from corporations!

[@michamarkowski2204]

Yeah, but some cities want to get rid of RODs and sell the plot to developers. Warsaw lost a trial against ROD owners and can't do it, but now Gdańsk wants to do the same.

[@CieplinskiPawel]

@@michamarkowski2204 Yeah... Polish judicial system is another story for (at least) entire episode:( You know, the one questioned by EU and not recognized as independent by several countries already (deny of extradition).

[@adamganski2012]

👍

[@BlackFox-ps5jb]

Crazy about this, huh? Well, it is funny. There is a lot of things in Poland We can't find somewhere else. I bet it is one more thing You would like to see in America, wouldn't You? What will be next? Polish comic books or polish cartoons? - I am wonder what do You think about them. Anyway, have fun discovering other fun stuff in Poland Russ!

[@fannyteoule1965]

Thank you for sharing this interesting video! I am currently PhD, researching on the community gardens in European cities and I wonder why you decided to call it community garden and not allotment garden? Because in terms of definition, they are different.

[@LoveMyPoland]

According to my research, I found that North America uses the community term. As I mentioned in the video, growing up in Houston I had never heard of such a thing.

[@ziggy129]

I have my own vegetable garden in my backyard on Long island New York.

[@E.S.K.]

But this isn't on backyards. There is a special place for this in the city. You need to drive/walk to your RODOS. In my city there is at least 3 places with this "gardens". I think many prople in USA grown vegetables or fruits in their backyards but this is something diffrent.

[@gsgrzegorz98]

I honestly had no idea about the open flame rule (or what is more likely everyone just ignores it). Every year you can see/smell people burning leaves in the autumn and pople doing a bbq or a campfire (and some even bake potatoes in ash) these are basically a staple. Maybe just rules differ from one place to another.

[@elfeintwentyfives1620]

when i still lived in warsaw my father had two of these in two different places...and from time to time off duty miliciant or two would check on these places in their patrol areas...and if they saw any evidence of permanent structures that fire could be made you would get a fine...repeat it and you would loose the privlige to have one and could had been permanently banned from even owning one

[@tonyd7644]

Does the person rent the plot of land from the local government? Or is it private ownership only? And these are small plots of land that you make a one-time purchase-and then only own until you pass away-and these garden plots are located within a short driving distance of where you live? Thanks if anyone can shed light...I find this concept of a rented garden really neat and interesting-especially if you live in an apartment (where you don't have a backyard).

[@Diaco1200]

You are buying a land from someone who owns it before, he will sell you he's right to this land, and you have to pay a gov. payment about that land, this is silly amounts. My mother owns a normal house with some land and in year payments it is something about 50zł = 10$, on RODs it will be even smaller payments because it is a smaller land to buy with not much media. That places are designed by the city officials, they can be in the middle of the city, or outside of it if city is small enough. You can always buy some land and make your own garden, but it will be a waste of land because that land probably will have permit to build a houses and live there with all of media like gas, water, electricity, internet, tv or phonelines.

[@give_me_my_nick_back]

I never understood the idea growing up and even now... so basically it's your secondary house but much worse and you are going to use it only for 2-3 months of the year and only for the weekends so what's the point of it to begin with... why not just make a small house there and sell your flat then? Is it really worth keeping it to use it only for the weekends and only for 3 months of the year? - what is it, a dozen of days a year or so.. might as well just go somewhere on vacation for 2 weeks straight instead.

[@Mjak-yd3og]

RODOS - nie znałem tego akronimu. Ja znam POD - Pracownicze Ogródki Działkowe.

[@jakubosiejewski9859]

You're not familiar with gołębiorze? Breeding pigeons used to be a big deal in Silesia in the 90s, maybe she'll it's

[@misiat.6460]

If memory serves me well, there was a pigeon sold in China for over cool 1 million dollars. It wasn't one of fancy looking ones, just like any other that poop in our town square.

[@ziggyszymczak7371]

They call it ogrodki działkowe

[@AsterFoz]

And... what is fun or unusuall in pigeons limit? Oh, and rvery community has own rules. In the one my parents had a garden both pigeons and bees were allowed. And sometimes people who don't have a place to live, stay in their garden despite all the rules. When this person is not making trouble people from gardens around are happy that somebody is guarding their cucumbers. There are people who come at nights to steal veggies, gardening tools or scrap metal. In Germany "Kleingarten" is popular too and you have to wait in a line for years to get a garden. Rules are more strict (like how tall can grass be) and belive me - if a German notices you do anything againtst the rules he will come to you and complain. And right after that he will report you.

[@Ntwadumela1]

1:34 Dave from the channel "Dave z Ameryki" once said that Americans use the word "vacation" not "holidays." According to him, "holidays" is a British term. Różnica między "Vacation" i "Holiday" - Szybka Lekcja Angielskiego kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWfSdaBjoJuXpbs His pronunciation of the word "twenty" is also a bit different from yours (without the T in the middle). Here's yours 3:55 and here is his kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXbQl2Z7l5KjiKs Dave emigrated from Poland to America at the age of 5 and considers himself a native English speaker.

[@LoveMyPoland]

Dave grew up in the north, while I grew up in the south. It's a myth that there's a universal American accent. We have hundreds of accents throughout the USA. He's right according to his reality. 👍

[@kamilstenzel3929]

It's the first time I've heard someone refer to these as RODOS. Might be a Częstochowa thing

[@LoveMyPoland]

Nope, demotywatory says it's all Poland 💪

[@E.S.K.]

No it's not. I'm from Pomorze and this name is normal for me for many years.

[@moniiibelle]

Here in Lubelskie we use RODOS too although ogródki działkowe is probably a more common name especially amongst older people

[@worldcitizen123]

Ha, ha, Russell, if you came across RODOS and you know what it is, you are already Polish.😂😂. I don't know if you know that allotments fed entire families and communities. Now they are back, but this time they are trendy and not a necessity to survive. I also noticed that for some time they have also started to arouse interest and arise throughout Europe, as well as in the USA, and this is our unleavened invention for difficult times. See what has happened in the world. 😁😁

[@yakeosicki8965]

Człowieku, ogródki działkowe istniały już XVIII wieku w UK, Danii, Niemczech. W XIX wieku pojawiły się w USA i innych krajach, w tym w Polsce. W czasie II W.W. w USA nazywano je Ogrodami Zwycięstwa.

[@worldcitizen123]

@@yakeosicki8965 A komunistyczne były? Proponuję czytanie ze zrozumieniem. Po polsku ciężko, a co dopiero po angielsku.

[@sharkinahat]

Also known as "Działki".

[@tomaszlech1432]

🩳👙

[@Asptuber]

I don't think "allotment" when I hear "community gardens" - is that a common US usage? ("Allotment" I understand fine, don't know if because of British-oriented school English (a looong time ago), or due to picking it up from British youtubers.) This video made me think: are there countries in Europe without these more or less strict "community gardens"? I know they exist in Scandinavia (incl/plus Finland), Germany, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Britain - probably also the Baltic states and Ukraine (haven't paid attention so can't be certain), maybe Russia? How about France, Italy, Spain, Romania, Greece?

[@LoveMyPoland]

I try to interchange UK and US English asa teacher. It's just a habit. Yes, allotment comes from the British translation

[@Asptuber]

@@LoveMyPoland But is "Community gardens" understood as the same thing (without any explanation) by native speakers?

[@LoveMyPoland]

That's a terrific question. I had never heard of them before moving here, honestly..

[@Asptuber]

@@LoveMyPoland So what would you have guessed if you heard someone talking about going to the allotment to weed? Or talking about all the drama going on there? (I'm pretty sure there must be murder mysteries taking place on allotments, I might have read one or two (in Swedish), but can't really remember anymore.) BTW, for some reason allotments are called "colony gardens" in SE, NO, DK, FI and also in German (though Kleingarten seem to be the more official name, still plenty of hits on google). And while checking this for the other Scandinavian languages I also found out that the idea seems to be from the late 19th century. Wholesome recreational activity for workers moving to the city to work in factories!

[@LoveMyPoland]

@@Asptuber I would have likened the term to a socialistic type of government housing 😂

[@leannestrong1000]

Hi, I heard you aren't supposed to live on your ROD property year around. Is that true? And if so, why is that?

[@LoveMyPoland]

Yes, it's true. It's been a long standing policy for decades in most ROD associations. That doesn't mean people don't try though 😳

[@hasppl9005]

RODOS to cos nowego😞. Zawsze było ROD

[@BaL00n1]

People are going there to steal fruits it's called szaber mostly younger :)

[@elfeintwentyfives1620]

lol i as child of 5 or 8 and few others would go raiding...but we never took more than one or two fruits or damage any plants if you did other kids would beat you up or not let you go with them again

[@stanleybandos8195]

Cool, i worked with a lot of Russian guys from Moscow. St Petersburg who owned these exact plot described by Russ. I think it's a hold over from Communist times. At least one thing they did which was right.

[@yakeosicki8965]

Man, the idea of ​​such gardens comes from the UK (18th century)! They already existed in Polse in the 19th century.

[@deltaZabrze]

Ten regulamin to jakiś imbecyl wymyślił / spisał ..... WTF? PS: Nie czepiam się wszystkich punktów ale większości z nich ....

[@lisapop5219]

Wouldn't it be great if people could have their own gardens in their own backyard instead of traveling. I have a problem with not being able to own the land that you pay for. Is this a leftover from communism?

[@konrads5281]

Yep, people living in communist apartment blocks. Usually the ogrodek was near multiple blocks so it was a few minute walk. My grandfather and uncles had them in northern Poland. I have not seen really seen them in southern Poland as most of my family were farmers.

[@PanProper]

Właśnie o to chodzi żeby ogródek działkowy był oddalony od domu. Idąc na działkę zostawiasz problemy w domu i dzięki temu odstresowywanie działa...😊