The new plot hasnt really been cultivated for a few years. A lady had taken it over but hadnt had the time to do very much with it save for rotavating it a couple of times and spraying it with glyphosate weedkiller. So its pretty much a blank canvas, some people find this daunting but I find taking on a new plot exciting, a bit like to moving to a new garden.
We heard that we had the new plot just before Christmas 2007 so we were able to work off some of that Christmas pudding by digging for victory ( of waistlines anyway ) over the Christmas and New Year holidays.
The plot is made up of four beds seperated by paths, they are 10m x 6m, 8m x 6m, 10m x 6m and 8m x 6m.
So the first thing we did was to transplant some apple trees that we had elsewhere into the end of the plot, to be honest it was a bit cold to do this but we didnt have much choice. Then it was dig,dig and more digging. By New Year we had dug over the 2 end beds fairly roughly.
We've had a few offers of rotavators but we prefer to do the start bit by hand to get as much out as possible, plus I think its a good way to learn a bit about the soil. I half think that rotavating destroys the soil especially when you see all the worms chopped up.
Havent seen anyone at the allotment site for over a week, it is very cold at the moment and some days the soil is just too frozen to dig.
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