I'd upload a photo but I don't seem to be able to upload one from my phone.
Just trying to source wood for raising beds or even just segmenting beds and a shed and bench! Bench is very important for munching packed lunch after lots of digging of course!! At the moment we can cope with carrying our tools to and from the house it's only three mins away!
Hi sweetpea, i,ve been on waiting list nearly 4 years, have just swapped to another list for a different site, they said we should get one in a year or so, i,m probably being optimistic that i canmanage that with two small children but i really want to try, i haven,t read anything except first line so forgive me if i have ignored any other part of post
hello Rosemummy, if you have only read the first post, then you should know we got ours yesterday! After 6 weeks! We are so incredibly lucky. When we lived in birmingham we honestly lived opposite the local allotments, there was the access road in front of the house and they were just there in plain view when doing the washing up! It was torture, but the waiting list was in excess of 3 years!!
Grabbed a photo from my facebook
Really not a great photo, but it gives you an idea of size, and if you zoom in, the amount of brambles we have to clear, even after it being chopped down! (this was standing about 6 metres into the plot too!)
We plan on churning up as much of the ground as possible, putting down weedkiller for the brambles, getting up the massive root balls, debris, litter and whatnot, and just focusing on a small bed and sew something like carrots this year, and then focus on improving the rest of the soil and ridding it of weeds for the rest of this year. The plot tapers off into into a triangle at the end, with some sort of flowering tree, hopefully that will be a wildlife bit with lots of wildflowers, bird feeders and the such! I'd like to get that done quite soon simply because I don't the need the soil to be in fabulous condition to get some growth.
Oh I forgot! We were warned today that there are a group of badgers that are partial to carrots! It's a good job I'm a fan of them!
Day 14! Another week of working the soil and we might start growing! The only thing growing at an alarming rate are the weeds! Loved all the rain which held us back!
I got the key to my allotment yesterday. It's quite overgrown with grass, thistle and the dreaded bindweed and I go from relishing the challenge of it to absolutely crapping myself about the sheer scale of it.
I've only got a 100m2 plot. I want to get it working this year so have got a lot of work ahead of me in the very short term.
whats bugging me is the utter randomness of the planting on the plot. There are parsnips dotted around in about 3 different places, blackberries smack bang in the middle of the plot and I've found what look like leeks but very tall with allium looking balls on top of them.
I know that I want to just concentrate on getting half of it cleared while I glyphosphate the rest. Then I can get on with the growing side of things.
The balls on top of the leeks (Allium porrum if memory serves) are probably the flower clusters. They could save you the price of a packet of leek seed if you let them mature.
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Just trying to source wood for raising beds or even just segmenting beds and a shed and bench! Bench is very important for munching packed lunch after lots of digging of course!! At the moment we can cope with carrying our tools to and from the house it's only three mins away!
Glad you've got your priorities right! You're obviously learning fast
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hi sweetpea, i,ve been on waiting list nearly 4 years, have just swapped to another list for a different site, they said we should get one in a year or so, i,m probably being optimistic that i canmanage that with two small children but i really want to try, i haven,t read anything except first line so forgive me if i have ignored any other part of post
hello Rosemummy, if you have only read the first post, then you should know we got ours yesterday! After 6 weeks! We are so incredibly lucky. When we lived in birmingham we honestly lived opposite the local allotments, there was the access road in front of the house and they were just there in plain view when doing the washing up! It was torture, but the waiting list was in excess of 3 years!!
Grabbed a photo from my facebook
Really not a great photo, but it gives you an idea of size, and if you zoom in, the amount of brambles we have to clear, even after it being chopped down! (this was standing about 6 metres into the plot too!)
We plan on churning up as much of the ground as possible, putting down weedkiller for the brambles, getting up the massive root balls, debris, litter and whatnot, and just focusing on a small bed and sew something like carrots this year, and then focus on improving the rest of the soil and ridding it of weeds for the rest of this year. The plot tapers off into into a triangle at the end, with some sort of flowering tree, hopefully that will be a wildlife bit with lots of wildflowers, bird feeders and the such! I'd like to get that done quite soon simply because I don't the need the soil to be in fabulous condition to get some growth.
Oh I forgot! We were warned today that there are a group of badgers that are partial to carrots! It's a good job I'm a fan of them!
Sweetpea, that's a great size allotment, you will be able to grow so much on that. My veg patch is only about 7-8ft square!
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Day 14! Another week of working the soil and we might start growing! The only thing growing at an alarming rate are the weeds! Loved all the rain which held us back!
Fantastic job Sweetpea, well done
You must be so proud of yourselves 
Wow! Well done
I got the key to my allotment yesterday. It's quite overgrown with grass, thistle and the dreaded bindweed and I go from relishing the challenge of it to absolutely crapping myself about the sheer scale of it.
I've only got a 100m2 plot. I want to get it working this year so have got a lot of work ahead of me in the very short term.
whats bugging me is the utter randomness of the planting on the plot. There are parsnips dotted around in about 3 different places, blackberries smack bang in the middle of the plot and I've found what look like leeks but very tall with allium looking balls on top of them.
I know that I want to just concentrate on getting half of it cleared while I glyphosphate the rest. Then I can get on with the growing side of things.
If anyone has any good advice then I'm all ears
The balls on top of the leeks (Allium porrum if memory serves) are probably the flower clusters. They could save you the price of a packet of leek seed if you let them mature.