Hi Maisie and welcome to vine. Everyone on here is SO helpful and always ready to help out with any problems or questions...no matter how simple or obvious they may seem.
I got my first allotment in February 2015 (after 40+ years of only growing flowers in pots and gardens) but I soon became completely addicted and now I cannot wait to get stuck in this year! Bought my first three varieties of seed potatoes today and a packet of Pea seeds (Hurst Green Shaft) as they were one of my best successes last year.
I will happily confess to feeling VERY excited when I first got my plot but then absolutely terrified!!! It all seemed so intimidating and complicated and nothing like anything I'd done before but everyone on here was incredibly supportive and helpful and following their advice I had so much fun....and my tomatoes turned out amazing!
I'm sure your allotment committee will not expect you to turn it into a Chelsea-standard allotment in just a few months but will be perfectly happy with slow-but-steady progress over the next year or two. One thing I learnt was to NOT try to do too much in one fell swoop (talking about digging and clearing beds here) because you just end up knackered and disheartened I found it much more manageable to dig over a full bed over the course or two/three days rather than try to do it in one day (or one morning!). If you're anything like me there'll be days when you feel like giving up and thinking it's all too much for one person but just keep going ~ little and often ~ and soon you'll regard it as your little patch of heaven and want to spend every available moment there. Getting an allotment was THE best thing I've ever done and I'm so excited about the coming years and growing new things and learning more and more!
Potatoes are supposed to be good for breaking the soil up so perhaps clear a bed or two once all this rain stops (it has to at some point, surely?) - I plan to sort mine out in March - and get some spuds in and at least it'll show that you ARE using your plot
I got my first allotment in February 2015 (after 40+ years of only growing flowers in pots and gardens) but I soon became completely addicted and now I cannot wait to get stuck in this year! Bought my first three varieties of seed potatoes today and a packet of Pea seeds (Hurst Green Shaft) as they were one of my best successes last year.
I will happily confess to feeling VERY excited when I first got my plot but then absolutely terrified!!! It all seemed so intimidating and complicated and nothing like anything I'd done before but everyone on here was incredibly supportive and helpful and following their advice I had so much fun....and my tomatoes turned out amazing!
I'm sure your allotment committee will not expect you to turn it into a Chelsea-standard allotment in just a few months but will be perfectly happy with slow-but-steady progress over the next year or two. One thing I learnt was to NOT try to do too much in one fell swoop (talking about digging and clearing beds here) because you just end up knackered and disheartened I found it much more manageable to dig over a full bed over the course or two/three days rather than try to do it in one day (or one morning!). If you're anything like me there'll be days when you feel like giving up and thinking it's all too much for one person but just keep going ~ little and often ~ and soon you'll regard it as your little patch of heaven and want to spend every available moment there. Getting an allotment was THE best thing I've ever done and I'm so excited about the coming years and growing new things and learning more and more!
Potatoes are supposed to be good for breaking the soil up so perhaps clear a bed or two once all this rain stops (it has to at some point, surely?) - I plan to sort mine out in March - and get some spuds in and at least it'll show that you ARE using your plot
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