[djbnat]

Hi - Finally got an allotment after being without for 3 years or so due to house move to different county. Strangely enough I put my name down one day, was number 32 on the list, yet was allocated one 2 days later  This was possibly as the council had coincidentally just opened up new plots in the adjacent field 
Now the negative bit - in preparing the field they just ploughed very thick couch grass straight into the ground (thanks Newark District Council.....) - that means not only do I have to get it all out but I have to go searching for it about a foot down.  It really is a thick mat so no chance of anything rooting through it, but hey ho it has to be done.
Tackling it about 3-4 feet widths at a time and planting up as I go along so at least something is being produced this season - so far carrots, onions, cabbade, cauli, brussels, potatoes and beetroot planted/sown with beans and leeks in waiting for the next patch.  I won't mention how my back is coping!!!!!  But it's great to be back 

[mumofstig]

Tis hard work - but you'll get there and it's really worth getting as much out as you can at the outset.

Good luck 

[Yorkie]

Congratulations and hope you've remembered the site rules:
a) take piccies as you go
b) let us see them!

[Plot74]

Good luck and enjoy.
All the hard work will be worth while. Sounds like you have done it before so you will know the rewards are just round the corner.
John

[djbnat]

Thanks all - got some piccies on my camera as I want to keep a dateline diary - once I download them to my laptop I will post them.