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New allotment land
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Just taken on first allotment land - enough for 7 half plots (each 125sq.m) plus space for sheds, water butts and composting. Land very wet, predominantly black clay type soil with blue grey layer a…
Tagged: new, wet land, clay, beginner, allotment
Started this discussion. Last reply by Neil J Jun 18.
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--------Nice going, Ronald,
The allotment is doing well for the first season. Tough ground such as you have takes a bit of working to get it right. Time will tell though it will get better and better.
What you have to aim for now is to add as much…
Well, six months in and the potatoes are growing well, peas stunted but pods forming, broad beans coming up from direct sow seed as well as from greenhouse grown. Parsnips, fennell, cabbages, broccolli (the real stuff - not calabrise) and carrots al…
Hello Ronald,
Firstly when you make your paths avoid using gravel on them. You will find it a great pain around your beds, especially with sticky soil. It will accumulate on your boots whenever you walk from bed to path. If you wheel the wheelbarro…
Thanks Gaz. Have found my drainage ditches have worked well and ground slowly drying out. Needed two spade depths though! Have cleared sedge/reed grass lumps from half my patch and today finished first turn-over of soil without getting half a ton st…
Hi Ronald,
Potatoes sound like a pretty good idea providing the ground does not stay waterlogged as you my find they rot before you get a chance to dig them up at cropping time.
I'd start straight away of some sort of large scale composting and ge…
Just taken on first allotment land - enough for 7 half plots (each 125sq.m) plus space for sheds, water butts and composting. Land very wet, predominantly black clay type soil with blue grey layer about spade depth down. Area covered in reed type…
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