Hi folks. Not technically an allotment holder but hope that's ok. Just moved to a new house with an adjoining field which we want to turn into partly a wildlife garden, partly a place to keep some ducks, and partly a vegetable garden. At the moment it's mown grass around the edges with a big chunk in the middle that was just left to go wild. As you can see in the highly professional plan I made
I'm pretty excited about it but also feeling quite daunted as a lot of the middle section is couch grass, as well as nettles, docks, and thistles but it's the couch I'm most bothered about. I kind of hate the idea of chemical weed control but I'm feeling like we might have to resort to it at least at the start. That long grass area is about 800 sq metres. The worry is that if we don't go chemical and just opt to dig it out manually, and we only do a bit at a time, will it just come back quicker than we can keep up with? I dunno.
Would love to go for no-dig but as far as I can tell we would have to bankrupt ourselves for the amount of compost we'd need to buy in.
Hoping to be able to post here as we start making progress and would like any advice or tips or just words of reassurance that this is actually going to be enjoyable, heh
Cheers