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  • New allotment and new grower!

    Hello

    I have rather suddenly found myself with an allotment after an email at work offered a plot to anyone who wanted one. I was on the list for a council one but think i still have about 8 years to go

    I am Amy and live in Edinburgh. My plot is to the west of the city and is about 14 x 9 m. Its recently been rotavated so i think my first task is to check for any more weeds hiding under the ground. My dad had a green finger and grew a lot in his poly tunnel. I am hoping that i have learned something from him!

    I have been given advice from covering it with plastic to leaving it and not even digging it. I wasnt planning on putting anything in the ground until after Christmas but maybe i am selling myself short there. I think i need to do a bit of reading and decide whats the best course of action. Oh and buy some tools as i only have my mums old hoe...!

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    Hi Amy and welcome. Its a good time to start planning what you'd like to grow next year and adding tools to your list for Santa!

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    • #3
      Welcome to the vine

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      • #4
        Hi Amy, and welcome.

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        • #5
          Hello and welcome to the vine Amy
          Location....East Midlands.

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          • #6
            Hello Lass welcome to the vine
            sigpicAnother nutter ,wife,mother, nan and nanan,love my growing places,seed collection and sharing,also one of these

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            • #7
              Hi Amy, and welcome.
              A great time of year for a new plot!

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              • #8
                Welcome Amy
                Its lovely getting a plot at this time of the year, congrats!

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                • #9
                  Hello Amy. Welcome to the Vine.
                  I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas A. Edison

                  Outreach co-ordinator for the Gnome, Pixie and Fairy groups within the Nutters Club.

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                  • #10
                    Welcome to the vine, enjoy the benefits of the advice and humour

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                    • #11
                      Thanks everyone

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                      • #12
                        Welcome Amy, and congrats on the new plot!

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                        • #13
                          Welcome to the vine Amy.
                          Loads of helpful advice and lovely peeps on here.

                          And when your back stops aching,
                          And your hands begin to harden.
                          You will find yourself a partner,
                          In the glory of the garden.

                          Rudyard Kipling.sigpic

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                          • #14
                            Welcome from me as well. I'd be inclined not to cover in plastic but make a pest of yourself in the local cycling shops and mooch the boxes their cycles come in. They will keep light out and thus suppress weeds and will absorb moisture which will end up in the ground if you dig the cardboard down in the springtime by which time it will have degraded

                            This would be a good time to plant overwintering onions if you want to get some dirt under your fingernails
                            Last edited by Aberdeenplotter; 12-10-2018, 07:59 PM. Reason: n key tempermental :)

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                            • #15
                              Hi Amy! Welcome! Lots of friendly helpful people on here to help! They’ve been helping me this year with my veg plot in the garden!

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