The best advice that I ever heard is that when it comes to the rules of gardening, there are no rules. Do what makes you happy. I’m invested in seeing your garden grow.

This is so ridiculously satisfying to watch. I'm totally living vicariously though you. Love your philosophy of reusing what you can. Also love the toad buckets!

Your neighbours must be delighted that someone so ambitious has taken over the allotment. You’re making excellent progress!

“I have an hour and a half” *stays for 4 hours 😂 it’s insane how much progress you made in 2 days!!! So satisfying 🫶🏻

That wooden frame thingy at 7:00 is the bottom half of an end over end churn used for making butter. When I was a lad we all had to take turns winding the handle, under the watchful eye of my grandmother. Slowly making my way through your back catalogue and very impressed with your progress.

I think the ground you are working on knows that FINALLY someone has turned up who actually cares about it. I hope whatever is going on in the background to make all that noise finish their project, and the area becomes quiet and calm. Well done!

Good job wall done 😊👍

Unfortunately it looks like the roots under the weed supressing membrane are those of couch grass a very pernicious weed. Don't chop it up as each section would go on to produce a new plant, you need to continuously and carefully dig it out over a long period of time. What an amazing amount of work you managed to get through well done, it is looking so much better 👏👏👏👏😁

Watching your video today your plot is how ours was when we started in march 2023 so much rubbish to move we moved four truck loads and just managed to use half our 200 square meter plot this year had more new equipment to use now using all our plot this year.good luck taking on such a plot .😊

You have done extremely well in clearing your plot I admire your work ethic keep going a little bit at a time

“ big scissor things “ luv it ….i,m on board for your journey…good luck !

That’s quite a before and after 👍

Seren, I'm interested in your experience in the coming months, as you watch all the weeds and other stuff you're gathering up go through a compost process. I suspect you'll need to add substantial amounts of fresh green plant material or manure in order to fully break down those woody roots you're dealing with. I wish you weren't halfway 'round the world, or I'd bring over a truckload of horse manure to get the process started for you! 💩 The horses at our house are the BEST garden assistants! The entire garden is powered by horse manure. Cleaning up after five horses every day has made me the KING of compost! You might consider using parts of your plot to intentionally grow crops with weed-like qualities, so you have plenty of excess green material you can add to your piles later. I let weeds grow around the garden for weeks at a time, then I go around the garden and harvest the weeds on the day I turn the compost pile. I mix the green weeds into the compost pile to help break down the woody material. I've followed the same process you are using, just laying down cardboard and compost. It has worked well for me! I've been using that method in the same garden plot for five or six years now.

The “big scissors” are shears and they’re for trimming shrubs or topiary. You’re doing the right thing just scraping up the dead stuff and composting it. Those bamboo canes, if they cannot be used for beans, can be chopped up for a bug hotel 🪳🪲🪰🐝🐞

you need a shed to take a leak in when required

Great job keep going you will get there .😊

Gardening is a good workout. You'll be fit by the end of it!

I love stories like this and I have subscribed and will follow you with interest. I have an allotment and love growing my own vegetables. You will get so much advice from other allotment holders who will mean well, but their advice will quite often be contradictory! The weed membrane and astroturf are your best friends at the moment because of the weed suppressing they have done. You are lucky to have the greenhouse which we are not allowed unless it has plastic glazing which goes opaque after a while. Good luck with your allotment Seren, don't rush and do too much but tackle little bits at a time and get planting as soon as the weather allows so that you can have the excitement of watching your first plants grow.

Wow, good job! You should be proud of yourself... 👌

You are doing a great job !

You're doing such a nice job, nice to see someone young doing something outside...well done keep up the good work,will be worth it!

Here in the states....every Christmas one of the networks plays "Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer. My favorite song from the show is " You Put One Foot In Front of The Other" Keeps me moving, even when "moving" means falling over! Keep moving, you're doing amazingly well.

I know since this you've made even more progress... but you must appreciate how much of a change you've made and how good a decision it was to choose the plot with the greenhouse. You've got it all cleared now (and recent videos show you've got your beds set up :D )... fantastic job!

Well done that was a massive cleanup

Suggest using the weed matt around your greenhouse, lookout for wood chips. If trees are being felled sometimes the aborists are only too pleased to have the chip bark removed.

They way you can work in a garden for 4+ hours in windy cool conditions and still have perfect eye liner is so powerful 💪❤ Excited to catch up and follow your journey!

Can't praise you enough for doing this!

Wow you are making some incredible progress! So much nicer looking for your neighbor allotments as well as making this productive ground again. That greenhouse once it's clear and usable again is going to be clutch; you got this! Just keep chipping away, you're doing great!

I'm just catching up on your allotment progress videos and I'm very impressed how much you've done already! Really looking forward to seeing your allotment journey! 🌱

Well done, you are doing a fantastic job in very tough circumstances, keep going you'll get there, I'll keep watching.

Well done, you have made huge progress. That progress in such a short period of time, you should be proud! It just shows you what you can achieve if you put in that effort. Good to see the younger generation take up gardening.

The artificial turf might be a bit of a silver lining- it will hopefully have suppressed a lot of weeds!

Wow you're smashing it mate, you got loads done in a short time. I love your passion and enthusiasm. Thanks for sharing with us I'm really enjoying your vids

A lot of vision and even more hard work! Well done you! This is amazing for just a few days!

Great work. I like how you are organizing as you are clearing. Good thing you are young! ❤

🐝Thanks for the great video🌻

You are doing so well. All the best to you. Your plot is very similar to Emma’s - allotment diary she had weed membrane all over and covered in weeds and bramble. Good luck!

Good Work👏👏👏👩‍🌾if you put plastic gloves under your work gloves the nettles don’t bite yuo😊

What a mess the previous owner left it! it will be beautiful - keep up the good work!

Just think how many previous owners of your plot have chickened out of weeding and just covered it up. Its soooo brilliant of you to get it done. Get as many roots out as you can - then you can decide to either dig or no dig. It is another tiny piece of Planet Earth that YOU and nobody else have started to rescue Take care. Good luck. Good start❤❤

Your allotment reminds me of when my son got his allotment other than the bath on his was filled with soil.

It will pay off so much digging out couch grass roots. It's what I did in the beginning. I was too busy digging to start an allotment YT so I need to dig out (haha- no pun intended) my footage and start one! Brilliant vlog!

You are doing a great job. Your plot neighbors must be thrilled to have you take over this plot💥

Also Seren, find out if they have a skip day, help with getting rid of all that rubbish.

Wow you have done so well! Look forward to following your allotment journey xx

Brilliant job.. you'll remember that! For the digging out it might not be too bad... turf ypu can make into a pile cover and in 9 months it'll be compost.. lovely stuff. You might research a matock.. we have heavy soil and it uses the weight and ypu can just swing it and it cleaves through the roots and soil.. saves your back muscles!

You are doing such an incredible job, well done it's great to see your progress. 🥰

Exciting times! Yea i detest artificial turf too

great job mate i have a no dig allotment my second yr

Just found ur channel the other day and I'm obsessed 😂 my garden is big but not as bad as that mess😂 so if you can do it so can I!! ❤thanks for the inspiration 😊❤

Bless you Seren, garden shears, not big scissor things . You are doing well. Just focus on a small piece of land first, something like a couple of metres square at a time. Then take a break. Keep your spirits up. Enjoying watching😅❤

Very satisfying when you see the progress. You've done a great job. Looking forward to watching your plot grow. 😍

Great Job! Looking forward to the next Video.

Great job so far , my first plot was very similar and all the hard work clearing the plot is very rewarding

You have done so much work already. You are probably overwhelmed but you are doing an amazing job. It looks so promising

Wow , so much respect for what you’ve done. Just found your channel and will definitely keep watching to see how you get on. I was tired just watching you but honestly well done . Keep going it will be worth it . Tfs Marina :)

It looks so much better!

Great progress keep up the good work it will get easier and more satisfying

Wow! You’re making great progress. I’m from America & not quite sure what an allotment is? I’m assuming this is an area you’re renting or leasing?

That is a good clean up i wish you luck on your lot may your veg's grow big and your back stays strong

A massive well done. I love your approach to recycling. It reminds me of the state of my allotment in north east Scotland when I got it. Have a look at Charles Dowding, Terry King and Tony O’Neil in Simplify Gardening for tips. PS- you might want to put out some bird food to keep your Robin around.

Your doing so well, keep going 😊

As an American I don't really understand the "allotment" situation. But the amount of effort in a short time is amazing. Congrats! 😎

Well done, it is very hard work doing all this I know I do this sort of thing nearly every day

Well done 🎉 you worked hard on this but it will pay off big time. Keep going. I had to do this but with my garden 😂 it was such hard work but now have lots of beds and starting to plant out. Looking forward to watching your journey and I totally agree with reusing what you find xx

wow you nailed it kudos for you for doing that by yourself

When you start to dig always use a fork not a spade. You will not chop up the weed roots that way.

You are a working machine! Great progress. I know it is overwhelming but you are making a big dent in it!

I mean, WHY WHY WHY would any allotment owner use artificial turf! You presumably want to grow stuff - so organic? Weed membrane is annoying but plastic grass!!!! Just just flabbergasted. My gast is very very very flabbered. Good luck lass - subscribed and watching the journey. "Big scissor things"😂❤

GET GLOVES. SAVE YOUR HANDS. USE MASKING TAPE TO PULL OUT THE.. NETTLE. WOW REALLY. HARD WORK. 13:47

Well done, you have achieved so much in such a short time.

You have done some amazing work there Seren well done. Barry (the Wirral)

Making good progress 👍

Looking good

Brilliant start. Have a look at Huw Richards for good advice. He's also in Wales.

Wow you got so much done! Amazing progress. Channel is taking off too and deservedly so ❤ this is making me motivated to cancel plans and get down the plot

So that plastic, that covers a large wedge of your allotment , is it protecting the ground and will you pull it up ? Great vids , thanks !!

Wow, hard worker. This old lady from Canada will follow you. Why on earth would someone pay for a garden plot then cover every inch with ground cloth and composters. What did they grow and where?

You have done a fantastic job it looks great now, allof those decking boards will be fantastic for raised beds. What was the previous owner thinking with the artificial turf? Can't wait to see where you go from here, big licks from New Zealand 🐶

Buy a bag of disposable mechanics gloves, they are black the only glove so far nettles don't get me, plus they last more than one day gardening.

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Love your enthusiasm, keep going ,unfortunately soil under membrane looks unusable, (probably reason for membrane ) used mushroom compost cheap way to get bulk mass onto your plot , combine with well rotted farm manure to sort beds, use good wood to delineate paths and beds, astro turf for walkways, rotten wood for bonfires (potash),can't have enough waterbuts , finally , get friendly with your neighbours they'll have loads of contacts and advice to help you, every day is a schooldays when it comes to gardens, good luck, mick

I am in the Us and have no experience with allotment gardens. Can you fence your section? Do you pay monthly? It's incedibly interesting to me. Good luck and God bless.

I'm not sure what the point of putting artificial turf in an allotment is. Sounds like a exercise in futility to me. I hope they didn't plant plastic flowers or tinned veggies too? 🙄 You are a brave and determined young lady! Were they attempting above ground gardening? Yeah, that's what they were doing. Rather than dig a garden, they put bags and ground sheets down and put compost on top of it. Nice job! What a huge amount of work you've accomplished!

Im quite shocked the council dont clear the space of rubbish before you take it over 😮

I bet there are loads of worms under the ground sheet 👍

You have done a great job so far.....you need to employ a 1/2 strong you guys/girls to help you out....you need a "tip"...or a dumpster as we would say in 🇨🇦 ...

Do you buy the allotment, or rent it? You’ve done a great job so far!

Does the allotment have Burn Days?

You have worked so hard well done and get yourself thicker gloves but keep up the good work.

Why dont they have fences round each plot?

May I ask, how much does it cost to have an allotment?

I don't think allotments should allow weed membrane on allotments. Well definitely not fake grass. I guess the previous owners were probably just being frugal and got some old discarded fake lawn and used that as a weed membrane but still think it shouldn't be allowed.

Get yourself some gardening gloves. Start with some raised beds

Why ever did they put down plastic grass in a lot that is meant to be used as a garden? I am soooo very confused.

If these allotments are so hard to get, why are they all in such poor condition?

Why on earth would anyone desiring to grow things cover their plot in Terram & artificial turf... Heck, the couple who have the plot next to me manage to keep things tidy & they're both in their 80s. Oh & wooden sides for beds isn't a good idea, as they provide a home for slugs, especially if the wood's already rotting.

So do you own this plot or are you renting it???

Landscaping fabric is the worst. It doesn't prevent weeds and it's a huge disruptive mess to take out.

Why do people in the UK rent a lot, to garden ? Can you just put a garden in the back yard ?