Hello and thanks for taking the time to look at our humble little corner of blogsphere.
After 2 years on the waiting list we have finally been given our very own allotment! (well a half plot really but half a plot is better than no plot!)
My wife Kat picked up the key at lunch time and as soon as i got back from work we shot round to see what we had gotten ourselves into.
As you can see we got a big slab of weeds :oP but I have three flippy floppy scarecrows to keep away pests!
having a closer look we found a bramble by the pallets at the far end and this poor fellow
So at least we know something other than weeds can be grown here!
Back home we went and put our 2 monsters to bed and I popped back over to plot 4 to have another look and make a token effort at digging.
Arriving back on my own I took a look around and realized I had no idea what to do or where to begin!!
Now don't get me wrong, the couple of years on the waiting list was spent reading through Grow your Own magazines, looking up allotment blogs and reading a couple of very good books on the subject. Yet the second I set foot on the plot everything I had read dribbled out my ear.
Looking around in despair I spot a chap tending his own plot across the way and decide to introduce myself and see if he had any idea of where I should start!
Turns out the chap's name is John and he has been on the allotment for 3 years and he seemed really nice. After showing me around his and plot and a couple of the neighboring plots we got down to the business of what I should do with my own plot.
He said I should pick a section and aim to do a little bit at a time and bit by bit get the whole lot done in bite sized chunks to avoid burning out or giving up.
This was great advice and was what I had originally planned before it fell out of my head earlier.
Asking how hard the ground was for digging he scooped up my fork and nearly bit his tongue off with the force of impact. The ground is pretty much rock solid. So new plan, give the area a good soaking to soften in up for digging up.
With John now off to the pub and hose in hand, I soaked the area I am planning on digging over first and not wanting to leave without making a token effort, I made a start in the far corner.
Turning up the grass revealed a LOT of bindweed and Couch Grass, so I should imaging there is a lot of sifting through the dirt to remove as much as we can over the coming weeks :o(
Thats all for today, Thanks for stopping by!
Rob, Kat, Lucy and Oscar Smith of Plot 4
After 2 years on the waiting list we have finally been given our very own allotment! (well a half plot really but half a plot is better than no plot!)
My wife Kat picked up the key at lunch time and as soon as i got back from work we shot round to see what we had gotten ourselves into.
As you can see we got a big slab of weeds :oP but I have three flippy floppy scarecrows to keep away pests!
having a closer look we found a bramble by the pallets at the far end and this poor fellow
So at least we know something other than weeds can be grown here!
Back home we went and put our 2 monsters to bed and I popped back over to plot 4 to have another look and make a token effort at digging.
Now don't get me wrong, the couple of years on the waiting list was spent reading through Grow your Own magazines, looking up allotment blogs and reading a couple of very good books on the subject. Yet the second I set foot on the plot everything I had read dribbled out my ear.
Looking around in despair I spot a chap tending his own plot across the way and decide to introduce myself and see if he had any idea of where I should start!
Turns out the chap's name is John and he has been on the allotment for 3 years and he seemed really nice. After showing me around his and plot and a couple of the neighboring plots we got down to the business of what I should do with my own plot.
He said I should pick a section and aim to do a little bit at a time and bit by bit get the whole lot done in bite sized chunks to avoid burning out or giving up.
This was great advice and was what I had originally planned before it fell out of my head earlier.
Asking how hard the ground was for digging he scooped up my fork and nearly bit his tongue off with the force of impact. The ground is pretty much rock solid. So new plan, give the area a good soaking to soften in up for digging up.
With John now off to the pub and hose in hand, I soaked the area I am planning on digging over first and not wanting to leave without making a token effort, I made a start in the far corner.
Thats all for today, Thanks for stopping by!
Rob, Kat, Lucy and Oscar Smith of Plot 4
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