Your allotment essentials and must haves!

[Mr Dave]

In april I got my first allotment and I was wondering what people have on their allotment that they couldn't live without!

It could be anything,
A building/structure
Certain tools
Products
Maybe even certain methods?

[Bigmallly]

My long handled bulb planter is a godsend for planting spuds.

[chris]

A fork. I could make do without everything else, but a decent fork is the most useful tool that I have.

[CaroltheCarrot]

A shed for when its raining..............I spend a lot of time in my shed!

[veggiechicken]

Seeds .........

[alldigging]

Time.


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[bojangles]

My hoe and fork!!! Weeds are growing so much!!

[Samurailord]

A decent wheelbarrow and a good spade and fork. Everything else can come later in my opinion.

Andy

[Andromeda]

Greenhouse
Fork
Wheelbarrow - from transporting compost to moving a harvest, it's beyond essential
Journal - without it I'd lose track of what I'd planted and where

[dominic10]

Water and an old bone handled knife

[Barking Postlethwaite]

My long handled bulb planter is a godsend for planting spuds.

I agree; a most undervalued tool. My essential is this flimsy it of sharpened metal, though:



As my plot is wholly within a farmer's grass field which is never mown, I wouldn't even be able to reach it without my scythe / slasher. Best £8 (p&p included) I've spent!

[Nicos]

Being a girlie.....a bucket to pee in ( and a shed/place to hide to use it)
A stash of bags to bring crops home in
A chair to sit on and have lunch/a brew/admire the lottie
matches - or cigarette lighter for a bonfire
Bottle of drinking water/flask of coffee
something to nibble at/lunch
suncream
gardening gloves
kneeling mat
twine
compost heap

[singleseeder]

Many of the things alread mentioned but also........

.............. a large old kitchen knife, brilliant for weeding as well as cutting.

[Nicos]

You'll need to take your camera from time to time too!

[Mr Bones]

A shed, really missed it when I didn't have one. For me it's somewhere to keep your tools and nets etc, a good place to take five over a cup of tea plus not to mention a handy bolt hole from sudden downpours.