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Talkback: A new allotment
Kevin dale
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Hi Kate well done iv had an allotment for nine years its a place where I go to loose myself and find myself at the same time its real spiritual
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I am trying to encourage the allotment tenants to cater for wildlife. I am not an expert so I googled wildlife audit and came across your blog from 2011. I thought I'd use your wildlife audit that was mentioned in the blog from Nov 2011 GW magazine, which I don't have. How can I get hold of a copy of the audit questionnaire please? I think it would be a good start and we can build in more detail later, as we build up the basics first.
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greenbeanpickle Look out for a direct message regarding your query.
Kate
Looks like you've made a good start too.
I got a new allotment at the beginning of February. Been down each weekend. It's surprising what can be done in a few hours.
Happy growing
You should be counting your lucky stars you don't have perennial weeds, I'm completely plagued by them on the derelict plot I was given.
Don't both doing any digging, you won't reap the benefits of it in years to come, just borrow/rent a rotatovator.
I'd just buy some fish blood and bone from the cheap discount stores and sprinkle that on the length of the plot and hoe in and then get planting.
I agree with scroggin.
Someone else was asking the same q the other day. We agreed that the best thing to do was tackle a small area at a time, remove all perennial weeds by hand and hoe, hoe, hoe. Then plant spuds. Cover the rest with old carpet/thick cardboard/thick black polythene till you're ready to give it similar treatment.