Latvia: Gardening boom in Riga, overgrown plots elsewhere
Gardening on small plots or allotments is becoming more and more popular in Riga, to the extent that there are currently no vacancies in the plots of land offered by the municipality.
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LTV raidijums “Partikas revidents”, Ieva Strazdina
May 10, 2022
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While in the Latvian capital there are currently no vacancies for allotments, in Liepaja, Jelgava and Ventspils, on the other hand, there are opportunities for the green-fingered, while in Daugavpils there are plenty of neglected and overgrown gardens.
With food prices rising sharply, more people may be prompted to take a grow-it-yourself approach to the dinner table.
Zane Leite, the head of the Public Relations Department of the Jurmala State City Administration, explained that the municipality does not have land for the establishment of small gardens and no interest from people in renting such gardens has been observed. At the same time, she also mentioned that two plots of land in Dzintari for the maintenance of small gardens in the territory of the city have been leased to cooperatives established by small garden managers.
There is also almost no interest of the residents in small gardens in Jekabpils, where the activities of the local government for the establishment of small gardens have been suspended since 1998.
There is also a low interest in caring for vegetable gardens in the city in Daugavpils, where some small gardens under the auspices of the municipality are now overgrown. Vineta Velika, a senior specialist in land affairs at the Daugavpils Property Management Department said:
