After a delay of over a month due to adverse weather conditions and Christmas celebrations we finally found time to go to the allotment. Armed with two spades (one shiny and new bought yesterday), a ball of string, some bamboo canes and a tape measure, we headed off to take our first steps into the world of allotmenteering.
We started by measuring our plot: 8.40m x 12.80m (which is approximately 9yd x 14yd or 4 and a bit poles). It's actually a bit bigger than that, but we are planning to build our compost heaps, water catcher and tool shed down the end under the trees, so we measured out our dig-able area.
We have decided to divide the allotment into two: vegetable beds at the top end and the fruit further down where the allotment turns into compost making and tool storing. After trying and failing to get a spade into the very top of the allotment where the previous tenant stored his grass clippings (and the stones removed from the cultivated soil!) we started digging a bit lower down. An hour later we had dug over vegetable bed number 1 (8.40m x 1.50m) burying weeds and clearing parsnips and plastic labels as we went.
Next week vegetable bed number 2 (and some photos).
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