Pics of our new allotment, help needed!

Zazen999

What I would recommend is to plant up what area you can, and cover the rest with cardboard to keep the weeds down. Weight this down with bricks/wood or lumps of soil dug from underneath.

You will get weeds; there's no getting away from it - and the trick with allotmenteering is to cover what you aren't growing in, and work on a smaller patch and get it planted up as you go.

You can cover the lot, and plant through the cardboard and when you come to harvest, it will have kept alot of weeds down and will start to break up underneath. Then, add another layer and in the spring, you can plant straight through the card.

Then, whilst all this is growing you can sit back, draw out your lottie space and start to make plans about how you want to grow. Whether in beds, raised beds, or old fashioned allotment style. The first year is always 'to see how it fits together' so don't panic and get stressed; just get cardboard!

lucasmum

great advice thanks! We are finishing off the strimming tomorrow so then we can work out what patches we want dug. I think I am going to have to be patient and concentrate on planning this year to get everything ready for next year!! Bring on the cardboard!!!lol

lucasmum

oooh, developments!!! We are getting a polytunnel!!! Can you tell I'm a tad excited!!!!!

The only catch is we have to dismantle and remove it by wednesday this week. Its 24ft by 10ft and is in gret condition apart from a couple of sea gull pecks in the top. It has a big wooden framed door at one end and a window at the other but is under a lot of bindweed and brambles as it has not been used for 2 yrs.

If anyone has any hints or tips on dismantling one of these that will be great....... I can start planning alsorts of different veggies, what would be succesful in a polytunnel??
I will post back once we've got it home!!!