My career as an allotmenteer started in early april 2006. After a wait of several months I finally had a plot offered to me on the desired allotment site - and immediately accepted. To be more precise I joined the waiting list in september 2005. Why there was a waiting list I didn’t quite understand - since more than half the plots on the site was overgrown - and hadn’t been cultivated for months, if not years!

The plot I was given was no exeption. The sight that met me when I first got on the plot can be seen on the pictures to the right. The top picture shows the plot from the top by the shed towards the end, and the bottom picture the other way round.

Since it was early in the season the vegetation on the plot wasn’t too much of an issue, but the plot was littered with a fair amount of rubbish and an absolute truckload of broken glass.

To start off I spend a full day clearing away most of the rubbish - simply by having a fire! Fortunately my boss in work gave me permission to use the skip at my workplace as well for all the bulky rubbish on the plot.

As for the vegetation the plot was full of couch grass everywhere, so I saw no other method of clearing it than by using RoundUp weedkiller.

When it comes to that kind of weed I’m afraid I’m not patient enough to do things organically! I don’t mind a bit of weeding now and then - in fact it’s quite therapeutical - but in some cases you just have to do the sensible thing!

As I’ve mentioned elsewhere here on the site I only enjoyed limited bounty off my plot - the reason being that I got started too late in the season to really make something off it. I’m determined to change things this year though!

This weekend I hope to be able to take a few photos to show a bit of what’s going on on my plot at the moment, and how I plan to take things forward.

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