My allotment diary

[PreppingPingu]

I have made a facebook page (sorry if you don't have facebook *looks sheepish*) to show my allotment progression from a barren patch of land to something that resembles an allotment. I had started a blog and also kept a few notes, but I have decided that it may be helpful to me when looking back, and anyone else who is just starting out with limited knowledge, to post and record my successes, failures and blunders in a more accessible way, where I can up load photos and my ramblings. Not sure if its any use to anyone here who is just starting down this road? Any comments and or advice is most welcome.

https://www.facebook.com/Gardening.pingu?ref=hl

[Arzosah]

Thats me that Liked your page

[spindrift]

At work so cannot view it but ill have a butchers later. If only to steal your ideas:) Got my own allotment yesterday:) its about 5 meters by 15 and full of weeds. Thank god its sunny, ill be doing alot of digging.

[piglet]

Thank god its sunny, ill be doing alot of digging.

Having dug a lotta weedy, neglected allotments over the years, you just might regret that sunshine comment.

Knotted hankie optional.

piglet

[spindrift]

Thank god its sunny, ill be doing alot of digging.

Having dug a lotta weedy, neglected allotments over the years, you just might regret that sunshine comment.

Knotted hankie optional.

piglet

Regretting it already Burnt shoulders after giving my "moobs" a bit of sun:)

[nickdutch]

Its the photographs that really sell the page

[PreppingPingu]

Thanks all I figured hopefully the photos give inspiration to anyone starting out with a barren mass of grass and weeds, that with a bit of hard graft something can be made from nothing! I am making tons of mistakes - not getting my planting times right yet, and it will be a while before I will be seed saving and reusing the next year. Having said that I have planted a row of spuds from last years crop that I saved in a dark cold place over the winter till they started to sprout this spring. I will see what happens. It's all a bit of an experiment in these first years even though I have planted a few crops in tubs before, this is rather different!

[Pasty_pete]

Reading about you doing an allotment started me off again and in the last three week I have put my greenhouse up flattened a 13ft by 24ft of garden built 4 8x4ft raised beds and a 8x2.5ft bed sieved 3.5 ton of soil plus put down a gravel path all around it all and started my seeds I'm using my phone to do most of my posts on here and I'm not sure how to put pics on with it as soon as I find out how I will post my allotment pics on

[Pasty_pete]

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here's one the large beds are under a tarp at the moment

[PreppingPingu]

Just a quick addition here. I have copied and created a blog through our local allotment website who use wordpress. Here is the link. http://gardeningpingu.wordpress.com/ It's pretty much the same as the facebook one but I know some people prefer not to use Facebook so it's here too now.