[B_and_D]

Can sympathise - ours was completely over-run when we took it on Feb 2008.  Our approach was to dig where we could so we could plant that year, and then gradually do the rest.  2 years later and you wouldn't recognise it!  Gets easier to dig each year, and this year we have a shed built from old pallets, a timber greenhouse, and the plot fully dug (and half planted!) - hard work, but the sense of achievement is immense.  Stick with it and you'll get there

[mike1987]

thats a smart looking plot if by this time next year mine looks half that i will be happy

[mike1987]

update have been down and covered what i can and dug what i can i have a raised bed with a few bits and peices in  it if i was to get some (now banned) Ammonium Sulphamate "compost accerlator"  and was to use it for its orriginal porpouse weedkilling how much of it would i need? and how would i use it?

[Yorkie]

update have been down and covered what i can and dug what i can i have a raised bed with a few bits and peices in  it if i was to get some (now banned) Ammonium Sulphamate "compost accerlator"  and was to use it for its orriginal porpouse weedkilling how much of it would i need? and how would i use it?

Ammonium sulphamate was banned several years ago as a herbicide. 

It is illegal to use it (or for you to buy it or be sold it) and we cannot condone criminal activity on this forum.

Any replies to that question will be deleted and the thread locked.

[mike1987]

ok i wasnt sure of the legalities of it

[Yorkie]

Excellent 

You are doing a fab job on that plot, persevering like that - keep it up with glyphosate or something else legal!

[mike1987]

yea i was looking at that aswell but the lingering properties of it dont seem to be known what i need is a non selective organic weedkiller somehow or other i dont think that this will happen

[Yorkie]

The only organic weedkiller is a fork 

Actually, not quite true - covering up is of some use but takes time

[mike1987]

fire works well as ive found where i burned a load of wood theres nothing growing there lol

[Dom2599]

Hi Mike, i have just got 1/8th acre plot over at Teesville, it looks very similar to the state yours is in, i've got nettles at chest hight at the moment (although i've just gave them a spray of the nasty stuff), 2 huge ex chicken coops to bring down, then to try and rotavate it all, i think the hardest part of it all was getting the allotment in the first place!, i've got so many ideas for next year, i think i'm just going to clear a small part, then firefight the rest, good luck with yours m8