this is our allotment - signed for it today x

My new allotment had weeds above my head when I got it in the spring.

They are all gone now, thanks to my trusty Azada

I can really recommend a mattock for digging an overgrown allotment. I took my plot over in July last year (very overgrown with weeds higher than me) and when I first started digging with a spade and a fork it took ages and I bend the fork as the soil was rock hard.
Then I tried a mattock as one of the old boys on the allotment mentioned it to me and it was so much easier. The mattock cut through the soil like butter and the only effort I had was to lift it each time as it is quite heavy. I could also easily dig out old current bushes and rhaspberries and lift the mat of couch grass roots without chopping them into little pieces.
It saved me such a lot of time and I had the allotment already up and running 2 month after I took it on.