Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Welcome => Welcome to the Forums => Topic started by: LiamB on July 01, 2016, 13:50
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Hi Guys,
signed up the other day and thought i would introduce my self.
This is my first allotment, took ownership of it in April.
It was looking quite over grown but one of the other guys suggested i pay his farmer friend to plough it, so i did this to get my self a head start!
I've managed to deal with about half of it so far, and i was lucky as the plot had a left over greenhouse (apparently around 50 years old) and a really old shed, but it will do until i can afford to replace.
I've got a bad case of mares tail though and it is really driving me mad/demotivating me. Currently just over a third of my allotment is covered in it as i haven't done anything with this land, and it pops up everywhere between my plants...If anything is going to stop me next year it will be this. I did read though that it doesn't like neutral well fertilized soil so come autumn i will really prep the land for next year.
I'm based in the Nottinghamshire area...Annesley to be precise.
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Hello and welcome Liam. I hope you will experience the many ups of growing your own rather than letting the downsides upset you.
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Welcome to the site :D
It's best to realise early on that you'll never beat the mares tail, but it is possible to garden alongside it. The saying "Never let it see a Sunday" is particularly true, so if you keep pulling it out it will be manageable.