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I’ve just passed my third anniversary of having my first garden. On 6th Feb 2022 I got the keys to my #allotment plot. A family had just signed the lease for the left half the day before, and then I signed for the right half.
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in reply to Lauren • • •My original neighbours left last year so I’ve now taken on the full plot.
It looks like chaos but I’ve cleared 3 loads of rubbish to the tip with more to go, including a broken trampoline and an endless amount of degraded plastic. The left hand hedgerow is also very over grown with lots of brambles. Now that I’ve cleared most of the rubbish I can hack all the hedges back next week. The tarps are all mine, seemed the easiest way to wrangle the first patch to make into a bed.
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in reply to Lauren • • •Over today and yesterday I planted two pear trees (quince C dwarfing rootstock) at the front of my original right hand half, and made a chipping path and mini paved area leading up to and in front of my potting shed. #allotment
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in reply to Lauren • • •It’s a long story but I ended up with four pear trees rather than two so last month I also planted two trees further up on the left hand half of the plot too. I only paid for two trees so kind of a brucie bonus to end up with four (at first I had no idea where I was planting them all!) #allotment
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in reply to Lauren • • •Before I planted any trees I’d agreed with the committee that 4 diseased unproductive plum trees needed to come out, and that when I took them out I’d replace them with new trees. This was originally the plan for when I had the one half with just two trees. But now I have both sides I’ve dealt with the left half too.
Tbh it felt like I was committing a crime cutting trees down but it was obvious by how soft the wood was in places that they didn’t have long for this world anyhow #allotment
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in reply to Lauren • • •I’ve been cutting the trunks of the trees into logs to make a log wall. And been attempting to make stakes out of coppiced hazel from the trees at the back to make surrounding supports for dead hedging where I can dump all the hawthorn hedge clippings next week.
In front of the dead hedge space there’s a big patch of mint in the ground with foxgloves and mullein, so I’ve bought some plug plants of extra native flowers and this will be left as a wildlife patch #allotment
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