[BIG ZOOK]

DO you lot put into your plots???  i have a new job 60 hrs a week  :shock:  well paid, but my lottie time will suffer, i have asked the council "if i can grass 2 thirds of my plot next yr  and cut it weekly" .they have said OK  so its not all bad.

[WG.]

DO you lot put into your plots???  i have a new job 60 hrs a week  :shock:  well paid, but my lottie time will suffer, i have asked the council "if i can grass 2 thirds of my plot next yr  and cut it weekly" .they have said OK  so its not all bad.

Put it into tatties or green manure - reckon it'd be less work than grass.

[leeky]

I think I would cover it so when the time came to dig again it would be clear  

[BIG ZOOK]

i was thinking that , the grass cut short, would make the allotment  still look tidy ,therefore , no complaints from other users??? cheers.

[WG.]

i was thinking that , the grass cut short, would make the allotment  still look tidy ,therefore , no complaints from other users??? cheers.

If there is a waiting list in your area, you'll get complaints anyway!

[milkman]

I would seed it with a mixture of grass and a green manure and mow it regularly - all the clippings can be added to the compost bin or used as a mulch on what you do manage to cultivate.  Good Luck.

[lentil987]

Why dont you try sectioning your plot into strips wide enough for you to reach from either side of a path. That way you dont need to do too much digging as your not standing on the soil and you will be able to decide to look after one section at a time each visit.

[mandycharlie]

But did  you notice.... how nobody said how many hrs a week they put into their plot........  

I'm putting alot of hours in at the moment, but thats not a fair comparasion to the others as I've just taken the plot on and its full of mares tail and couch grass and other nasties that are slowly being cleared..

[DD.]

I's difficult to say as

a) You need to work around the weather
2) You need to work around your available hours
iii) You can only do what needs doing. I may have the available time, but I can't plant tomatoes outside yet!!

I'm sure there's more.

Last week I did about 15 hrs - 3 hrs Monday to Friday.

Since last Friday - Zippo - too cold & windy - now it's wet!

[agapanthus]

In the summertime...normally about 5/6 hours per day or longer if I have lots to do. This time of year a quick in and out between the showers ...usually about 2/3 hours most days.

[muntjac]

ok i will say i havent put more than 18 hours in since november .i have hand dug my 4  is all .in spring with planting .which i havent started yet i will be doing a couple hours a week and then weeding and hoeing will be an hour .whilst its all growing it will be 5 hours a week with an hours weeding the thing is folks i can takeless time because i am on top of my plots literally being outside the back gate . also i havent got to do any major work such as those who have just started if you can spend an hour  a day during the week probably of an evening just checking on things and walking round with a hoe in ya hand   your going to be fine the weekend morning maybe for getting those other plants in or sowing more peas  , please dont count the hours in a sense of i have to get this done .its a garden believe it or not you have a month to do most sowing and planting of crops .all seed packets come with a planting time .dont think its the bible to stick to that time it certainly isnt i have sown peas right up to sept and picked them 6 weeks later with a micromesh sheet tent  over them in the first weeks of  october giving an extra month to them. what im trying to say is give your self a couple hours to go and weed during the week if your working all day and then sat or sunday morning go and do the heavy stuff/if you have to water then your talking an hour a day anyways so while the sprayers going do something else  

[agapanthus]

In the summertime...normally about 5/6 hours per day or longer if I have lots to do. This time of year a quick in and out between the showers ...usually about 2/3 hours most days.

forgot to mention that a lot of this time I'm chillin' in the sunchair or socialising with the other allotment folk :oops:  :oops: