2 – New Allotment Day 1

Its been only a few days since we got given the new allotment and me and the family have headed down to make a start.

Its May and the weeds are really starting to grow so want to try and get on top of them before it becomes a really big job, especially if we end up with wet and warm weather.

I’ve decided to start at the top, the whole allotment is on a slope and we enter from the top so it makes sense. We will just rip everything out and place some ground sheets I have to kill anything off we miss and stop the weeds growing back until we are ready to use the patch.

The very top is paved with two stacks of grow boxes, one a waste bin and the other empty we decided to use the empty one for composting. Guess I will have to take the old waste to the local skip at some point.

Their is bramble and nettles again the wall but looks like people have been jumping the wall and using the allotment as a shortcut to the snicket (footpath) at the bottom. That’s OK I guess when it was abandoned but I want to stop that behaviour now people can clearly see that its now occupied. There is a lot of rotten wood I need to dump somewhere so that can be piled up by the wall, not going to stop anyone who is insistent but its no longer an easy cut through.

As you can see in the photo above we found some rotten grow boxes half buried into the ground. Will take them out along with the weeds and make a bit of a path just below them which lines up with where we walk to get to our plot.

Here is a better photo from the road, already filled the compost bin but hopefully that will compact down before next week.

We found an existing strawberry patch with weed lining already down, not stopped the weeds though as they have just grown on top of it but will save them and see if we get a crop off them this year.

Not bad for about an hours work, the kids enjoyed it but they soon get bored.