[samcol1995]

Can you tell me the best way to get the grass off my new allotment before digging over the ground. Is there any better way then breaking your back, organically of course.  :?

[muntjac]

trench dig the plot and bury the grass in the bottom of the trench ...... plant when you like  any perrenial weeds that show roots pul them out , sorted  

[WG.]

Can you tell me the best way to get the grass off my new allotment before digging over the ground. Is there any better way then breaking your back, organically of course.  :?

Hi samjam, have a look through this thread http://www.chat.allotment-garden.org/viewtopic.php?t=2833 which describes two basic methods.   Feel free to post specific questions if you have any.

[shaun]

put it like this if a farmer was turning pasture into arable he would just plough it over.

[samcol1995]

OOPPS sorry whiskey
Cheers guys getting the picture, whats the best veg to grow now

[WG.]

OOPPS sorry whiskey
Cheers guys getting the picture, whats the best veg to grow now

No problem, it is easy to send a PM by mistake

[WG.]

put it like this if a farmer was turning pasture into arable he would just plough it over.

I've nothing against trenching the stuff, believe me.  I'd do it that way unless I was planning to follow it with organic potatoes (eelworm), which samjam probably is.

Fatgaz, in the other thread, had explicitly asked how to make loam from turf.  Hence http://www.chat.allotment-garden.org/viewtopic.php?p=30338#30338