How to clear an Allotment - Allotments for beginners - vegetable gardening 

Thank you 😊

Lol. 🤣

Thank you. keep me posted on your progress. love reading fellow allotmenteers comments. any questions just ask. Yes, you're now an Allotmenteer. like a musketeer just with a garden folk, which is way cooler!

Yes definitely, beer and garden chat is always good 👍🍻

Thank you. Hope it helps, but dont worry you have 35y+ life experience on me, to draw from. That will stand you in good stead. As the saying goes, "if theres any doubt, there is no doubt!"

That's awesome. im over 6 years in now and still not finished. just enjoy it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XtKcCo2kkhU.html

Thank you. That's very nice to say.

Good luck. I don't know your circumstances but if you have a small garden, start growing things like potatoes in pots and salad leaves I'm trays. You'll be surprised at just how much you can grow, even on a balcony. 👍

You're welcome. It's a journey and who doesn't like a good journey 🤘

Personally I do no dig and find it much better. But if you like digging then crack on 👍

Awesome. Thank you. 😁👍

Thank you. Good luck with the dialysis, hope it all goes well. 👍

@@GrowYourOwnLife It went thanks. As I dialyse at home I have an ample amount of cardboard from the stock monthly deliveries. Also easy to make use of 'reject' water to water plants in summer:) So if you need cardboard, find a handy dialysis patient:) Love your NHS! www.greendialysis.org/home-dialysis-patients/water Tip for viewers, compost isn't always needed. The local Leegomery community garden was cleared, covered with a green manure/cover crop of Phacelia. Then covered with cardboard and woodchip. Planting through later in the season into the ground directly produced some amazing tomatoes, beans etc. The debate on woodchip goes on but the proof of crops was one that as long as you have a mulch its easy to weed and less to water! I'd say if your starting an allotment/veg garden, look into composting and water while perhaps your not growing. I used to have a plot. Now my plot is mostly in the garden! If you have access to Netflix I can really recommend Kiss the Ground. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-K3-V1j-zMZw.html No Dig/No Till keeps carbon in the soil where it belongs and can actually 'fix' more carbon than just planting lots of trees! So we're doing the right thing!

Thank you. I'll definitely check that out. 👍

You're very welcome

You're very welcome. I've just started a channel of "how too" styled vids. Keep them all together. You may fond it handy? youtube.com/@gyolgardening497

Glad you've seen the light. Horse poo soaked in water makes a good liquid feed. So if you have an endless supply don't panic. 👍

I have chickens!!!

Good luck.

Cheers, very much appreciated 👍

It's OK if you compost it really well. But I don't think horse manure is the best. But saying that if I had access to a lit of it free, I'd definitely use it. But I'd compost it again or only use the middle of the heap that's well rotted. The middle should be very hot and will have killed alot of weeds.

@@GrowYourOwnLife unfortunately, i wont be able to get down to the really hot well rotten stuff as the dung heap is kept in the yard n there's not enough space to make a mess even temporarily. I did discover a place where i can get 4 bags 50L organic general purpose compost for a tenner, so ill prob go with that

It is a used football goal. 😄👍 Waste not. Want not. As my old nan would say.

Hi, yes a few. Many I've done. My allotment was much the same, I managed to get a few ton of bark mulch from a tree surgeon (they give it free normally). So I covered my plot with cardboard. Then bark mulch and started from there. But you could use any thing you can find straw, compost, munches, horse manure. Dosent ha e to be fancy.

I d check it out for rubbish first old wood slabs broken glass ext really check the whole plot out and then hire a petroll rotavator it save s a lot of work just level it out and then start to put down cardboard I know it will have been dug first but it should be the only time you need do it from there on

Hello Thomas, I took my plot on in the May. Same as you I had mounds and dips everywhere. I simply as said covered the hole plot with black plastic and slowly cleared it bit by bit.( put your rubbish to the front of your plot, hopefully you will have a understanding committee like i have but apparently some do get funny about rubbished not being moved). I then made my raised bed where I wanted it, levelling of the ground for the paths, replace black plastic or put weed surpressant down and cover with wood chippings.( if the dip was to deep i tried to get a slap / half slap to bridge it ) Don't rush, little and often is the way to go. I'v only just got half way but I'm ready to grow something and half the plot is still covered but no weeds! Hope this helps. All the best. Robbo.

To be honest, I use whatever I can get my hands on. I've used layers of bark mulch, manure, chicken bedding, topped with a thin layer of compost & it's all worked on various levels. But you can also tailor it to suit you. For example my strawberry beds have added bark mulch & twigs as strawberries are a woodland plant. My carrot beds have some sand added. As long as there's goodness carbon & nitrogen you'll do alright. 👍

@@GrowYourOwnLife Thanks for the advice! I'm a complete beginner!

Nope, well it hasn't for me and there was lots. I've actually found no dig makes it easier to pull up things like bind weed

Cardboard and no dig. If it was me. 👍

@@GrowYourOwnLife It is very very bumpy and uneven :( like covered in little tufts

Why till at all? Personally, I'd cardboard the lot with brown cardboard then mulch & get planting. 👍

No dig. 👍

I presume 16? But I don't know. Ask your local council. 👍

@@GrowYourOwnLife okay thanks

There in date order I believe