[mumofstig]

I got so fed up this summer with the plot design/beds/ grass paths that I inherited in May that I'm thinking about some changes. The beds were 2m wide so I couldn't reach the middles, so lost even more space with pathways across the beds...crazy!
It all seems to involve a lot of hard work.......digging and earth moving, before you can get it how you plan...........anybody else doing the same this autumn/winter?

[noshed]

I'm doing a bit of rearranging. I think I'll get rid of the grass paths and cover them with black woven stuff, if I've got enough left. When the grass grows up in the summer it's a bit of a trip hazard.
I'm mulching everywhere and I think I'll dig up the loganberries - they're very thorny and not particularly tasty. Also a fox has dug a huge tunnel under them, at least I hope it was a fox.
I must tidy the shed as well and put some more shelves up.
And I think I'll move my plastic greenhouse from home to provide an additional layer inside my draughty lotty one.
So there's a bit to do - can't wait to get down there on Saturday.

[arugula]

We're planning to get rid of the strawberry bed and do a bit of realigning the veg plot fence to join it in with one end of the polytunnel. That will allow us to fit in a good sized bed for a few fruit bushes, redcurrant and raspberry for now. We might cage it in too, this will be easy enough to build, or perhaps just mesh the bushes when they are laden with fruit. Or we might still create the new bed approx. 3 x 2 metres and use it for more veg. as the redcurrant is quite happy where it is and we don't have the raspberry canes yet.

The cucumber planter, which ended up being a pumpkin planter when the only surviving cucumber plant went indoors, will move and become a scented flower planter for summer.

Potatoes, no more than 3 varieties, will also get a new bespoke home.

Plenty to be going on with then...

[purplebean]

Hubby has been clearing the brambles from the bottom of the garden and soon we will be able to put in the raised beds. Next season I should have a dedicated veg area rather than the two beds that we put in on the so called lawn (more weeds and moss than grass) 

[aelf]

I seem to rearrange something every year  . I'm seriously considering moving my greenhouse as it is in partial shade now that my perimeter hedge is established.

Considering it may be as far as I get 

[savbo]

our biggest change is taking out the long thin bean bed running partway down the middle of the plot so we can have a decent path you can get a loaded wheelbarrow down...

and putting up greenhouse 2.

MS

[solway cropper]

Re-arranging is half the fun of growing. Being satisfied isn't in my nature...I always want to improve things. This autumn I've cut back and lowered the eastern boundary hedge which has allowed me to squeeze another foot on the width of the main veg. patch. I got a glass shower surround from a neighbour which I'll be making into a cold frame...if I can find somewhere to put it. One of the old apple trees is coming down but I've yet to decide whether to replace it with another pear or plum. Next year will be just the same....I love it 

[binner]

daft as this may seem, over this winter and next i am removing the grass paths between my layze flat beds, i made the beds too wide to reach into the middle silly me and the grass is the fastest growing i have ever seen and its also full of weeds that keep creeping into the beds, i ran out of growing space too so if i take 6 2ft wide paths out  it gives me plenty more, i am now going for 4 large beds with half flags between to walk on and a fool proof crop rotation

[diggerjoe]

I looked at the paths on mine yesterday and thought they take up a fair amount of space so I am spilitting my plot into 4 with the paths meeting in the middle to form a small square where i plan to put a sweetpea wigwam. Well thats the plan by the time next year comes it will all change again.  

[Christine]

I'm just going to take the margins of the growing areas back closer to the hedges - again. I'll swear the hedges sneak further into the allotment overnight when my back is turned.

I did take on an allotment with established hedges (most of the plots on the site are the same and it does keep others out of your boundaries) and a concrete hardstanding (which is handy for growing things in tubs) so - well there is only so much rearranging you can do.

There's a little room for expansion at the margins but not a lot.

[Trikidiki]

I'm gradually installing 2.4 x 1.2 m beds across my allotment and a line of 2.4 x 0.6 m beds for soft fruit.

Its amazing how few of the new beds line up with the existing beds and paths. Luckily the plot is light soil, very few stones and not very weedy apart from one edge which borders a negligent neighbours plot.

[veggirl]

Last year I drew up a plan to have four main beds for rotation, running down the plot - half way through planting, I decided to go back to rows across the plot. It's amess at the moment, but if it ever stops raining, I'll keep on with tidying and see if I can get it organised!