Very overgrown allotment

[buzzingtalk]

Dig day sounds great - anyone welcome! Message sent

Greasemonkey - thanks! I will check out these tools online - I hadn't heard of them before. I've yet to buy a spade, so am still looking! how do they differ from normal spades, will they get rid of brambles/roots?

[Two_Sheds]

The best digging tools i have bought are a heavy duty right angled digging fork and a right angled digging hoe

They're probably great for a strapping lad, but some of us ladies can't wield a normal fork let alone a heavy duty one.
I use border sized tools and take my time

[Corris]

Oh oh, I'm really excited - we have a meet!

[Two_Sheds]

I am absolutley infested with bindweed...

I just caught up all my Gardener's Worlds on the planner, and Monty Don said his plot (the jewel garden) was similarly infested.

He took out all his plants, then double-dug the whole plot, picking out every scrap of bindweed root, then put the plants back. He did say it was bloody hard work

[StephenH]

The outside part of my allotment is full of white roots of something-or-other - not nettles, I don't think, because they're yellow: maybe couch-grass, because grass is the only other thing that seems to be there in abundance. Whatever it is, I'm removing as much as possible as I dig it over, but am resigned to having to do so again quite a few times in the future. So also with bindweed, I imagine.

[Snadger]

I just caught up all my Gardener's Worlds on the planner, and Monty Don said his plot (the jewel garden) was similarly infested.

He took out all his plants, then double-dug the whole plot, picking out every scrap of bindweed root, then put the plants back. He did say it was bloody hard work

I dare bet he's still got bindweed though.....................

[Two_Sheds]

^
well I have, my patch was dug out every year, and the darn stuff came back stronger than ever. Hate it, hate it