What state was your allotment in when you first got it?

[MattyJC]

Easy...Field!

Looks great 3 years on and the produce is great!

Regards


Matt

[MattyJC]

[timnsal]

Waist high in nettles, with areas of brambles and couch grass mixed in for good measure. Our site was apparently a Victorian glass tip, so vast quantities of broken glass and bottles (mostly seem to date from around the 50s-60s though, so never any interesting ones :-\ ) I get about 2 sacks of perennial roots and 1 of glass per sq metre dug.

Oh, and rabbit holes in the middle, and assorted trenches and ledges.


Then you spend hours digging, get a nice, clear bed and start planting, and some inconsiderate wotsit takes a short cut right across it to reach their allotment.

Ever feel like giving up?

Have managed to grow broad beans, onions and potatoes without him destroying them yet.  :)


Sally

[Smileyk]

Just got ours and it's weeds about 1 foot high (they were cut recently - thank God).  However we can have the bit next to our allotment too as it's spare and too small for them to rent out on it's own.  This is about 4 foot high in brambles, blackberries and stinging nettles etc. 

Dh started digging over the weekend and has cleared a few feet so we could get some veggies in.  We'll (that's the Royal We - I mean him! :D ) will dig and then plant, dig and then plant.