[muddy86]

Hi everyone, we have just got our first plot. But its really over grown with waist high grass!! what's the best way to get to the earth again? any tools or machinery would be best to clear the plot your advice would be so grateful  

[sunshineband]

Hi muddy and welcome.

There is lots of helpful advice on here, including articles about dealing with a new plot in the buttons at the top of the page -try Growing Help- and in the threads in the Growing Forums -- stickies 

Little and often, don't try to do it all at once -- good luck with your new plot 

Oh, and photos before and after to share your success are essentiAL too 

[Dave Mack]

Hiya , welcome to the forums ... enjoy 

[peterjf]

strim it , dig it , if you have time,  round up it when grass starts to show , follow instruction then dig again and leave for winter ,

in early spring start prep for growing

[mjpalin]

Congratulations on your first plot! We acquired ours mid may, and the best piece of advice we had was to strim / roundup / dig / dig / dig!

If you can resist it, stay away from rotavating as we were told this would just chop up the perennial roots and they'll be back with a vengeance some time soon.

As others have said, try not to do it all at once, we only have a tiny plot 5.5m x 11m and 10 weeks in, we still don't have it all sorted - just less than half of it planted, and probably won't plant the rest till next year now.

[kevinp]

Having just got my first plot and my first garden since the 80's I know how exciting this is

[chili]

burn it to the ground
i actually done this on a section of my plot and it is now the most weed free bit i have

[weirdsowing]

burn it to the ground
i actually done this on a section of my plot and it is now the most weed free bit i have

My husband & I are planning to burn our newly aquired plot - council have strimmed it for us we have removed all large pieces of rubble. Tonight is the night we get going with the flame gun if we manage to find some paraffin. Then we plan to use a Rotavator.

[Dom2599]

Congrats m8, got mine in april (1/8th of an acre), i'm still clearing it....apart from taking down 2 huge old chicken sheds......i didnt think you could get so much rubbish, wood, plastic, glass, rubble, old gas bottles, nettles, brambles bindweed, rusty tin sheet, wire, nails, nails, hundreds of nails..... :blink:...i'm just fire fighting at the mo and getting ready to hit the ground running next year, the old fella next to me is giving loads of encouragement, hints, tips and veggies ( he gets more light now i've removed the 2 sheds)

[dazem11]

Good luck, we got ours on Saturday,
daz

[plopleuk]

good luck i got mine a month ago and have spent the time with roundup then measuring the plot and working out where the sun hits most then measuring some more then put in planning permission for a shed and greenhouse then i started to dig out a spreading flower plant and have starter the first bed then paths.
tonight i got to the plot for some spuds the previous tennant left growing and saw the manure had turned up so spent the night stocking up with that.
my biggest advice is talk to your neighbors they are happy to advise and assist and if your lucky share some of their veggies like mine have.

enjoy 
oh and this site is the best for advice im on it daily.

[JuliaPen]

Well done on getting your plot. I have had mine for about 13 weeks now and after a hell of a lot of hard work I am producing loads of things

I got a Adeda from a car boot sale which is the best tool over and above any fork or spade I have used, look it up. Also don't rotovate, take the top grass roots off with the Azada after you have strimmed it all then dig and weed, dig and weed. Get people to help if you can as I have my mum and she is a machine!

Here is my plot, it doesn.t show how tall the weeds/grass were but it was hell to start with!
http://www.bhaf.org.uk/page_id__233_path__0p44p45p.aspx