Well done DDL
I've had my allotment about a year now, and it's been great.
Firstly work out which way you're facing and try and have beds going north to south so they get the sun all day.
I've got a 4 bed crop rotation plan based on spuds, legumes, brassicas and roots so I know what's going where each year.
Work out what you like to eat and grow that - big sucesses for me have been spuds, beetroot, perpetual spinach (now growing like a weed all over my allotment), kale and courgettes.
I dug mine over and got rid of as many weed roots as possible, then divided it up into raised beds - the initial digging reduced me to tears, but hang in there.
Best wishes
Fiona
I've had my allotment about a year now, and it's been great.
Firstly work out which way you're facing and try and have beds going north to south so they get the sun all day.
I've got a 4 bed crop rotation plan based on spuds, legumes, brassicas and roots so I know what's going where each year.
Work out what you like to eat and grow that - big sucesses for me have been spuds, beetroot, perpetual spinach (now growing like a weed all over my allotment), kale and courgettes.
I dug mine over and got rid of as many weed roots as possible, then divided it up into raised beds - the initial digging reduced me to tears, but hang in there.
Best wishes
Fiona
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