So Here Is My New Allotment!

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Bramley Garden.

Ай бұрын

So Here Is My New Allotment! Come and have a look at my new allotment. What have I taken on?

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@mppc2001 Ай бұрын

Congratulations on your new plot! At this point in the season you will be planning your shape and structure of you allotment. If I can offer a suggestion it would be to buy a big bag of cheap potatoes from a local supermarket. Then plant all the areas you plan to grow on next season with them. Don't waste time trenching and mounding them just plant deep with a bulb planter. Potatoes are like letting a pig loose on your plot, once they've grown they will have saved you a lot of back braking work and leave a better cultivated soil structure. You can also interplant the rows with other produce that wont mind shading, like salads and leaf crops. All the best!

@bramleygarden.8647 Ай бұрын

Thanks yep I do so agree I have tow rows of potatoes set already more to set in next week's video! Thanks for the great comment and good to get your thoughts. Thansk Kev.

@wendybartlett6717 Ай бұрын

Wow that's a big plot Kev and I can see that you've been working hard digging the soil. I know what you mean about hitting lumps of clay as my garden is like that. I have improved it over the years but the start of the gardening season is always a tough one when everything sticks together.

@TheBeginnerGardener Ай бұрын

Hiy. My new allotment is heavy clay so I'm going for the no-dig method.

@bramleygarden.8647 Ай бұрын

Thanks Wendy, and yep better than any gym membership two hours up there in the early morning gets me feeling so much fitter already And yes Clay soil can be tricky to work for sure but like you rightly say it is a question of soil improvement slowly. I have to say some of the soil there is very good so it's not as bad as maybe I first thought. I now have two rows whole with of the plot set in early Potatoes. Thanks for your super comment Kev.

@bramleygarden.8647 Ай бұрын

@@TheBeginnerGardener Yes I say go for whatever works for you best. And I never knock these new ideas that is what gardening is all about sharing ideas and thoughts good luck with your own plot and the no-dig system you are using and thanks for the comment. Kev.

@clemianiero4394 Ай бұрын

Great Video my Friend. Love the boots 😃😃😃😃😃

@bramleygarden.8647 Ай бұрын

Hi Clem Oh, you know me too well you know I have to have some stylish gardening boots! He says laughing the grass was very wet that morning and you know I hate Wellington boots! Hope life goes well for you thanks as always Kev.

@ponytv9996 Ай бұрын

Oh dear, taken all the best soil away… should have covered it with a tarpaulin for 3 months then adding compost on top and planting straight in… works on clay very well 👍

@hamoostaffat Ай бұрын

Thats what I do with mine.... spread top manure after harvest, cover for winter, then I'll rotovate that in in spring, add my compost till it in and plant away Got years of neglect to undo, very clay heavy with little humus added, its also scary how many of my fellow allotmenteers don't have compost piles and take all their green waste to the tip 😢

@bramleygarden.8647 Ай бұрын

@@hamoostaffat Thanks so lovely to read you own thoughts on this and your ideas but like I said above we can't do this system! Thanks for the kind comment Kev.

@thevegplot Ай бұрын

Good luck with the plot I'm afraid you could well have allot of problems with wire worms though. Old pasture will have millions of them i have this next to mine and am constantly being the infested with them. Put some lettuce in now just to see how bad the problem is.

@bramleygarden.8647 Ай бұрын

Yes, I took an allotment 30-odd years ago and had trouble with these as that was grass but after a few years of work, the problem did get less but a very good point you make about this issue. Veg like potatoes can be ruined etc. But you have to live with this. Thanks, for that great comment Kev.

@grahambaker9377 Ай бұрын

Nice to see new allotments being made available keep at it like you said its not a race.

@bramleygarden.8647 Ай бұрын

Thank Yes, steady and sure that is the way forward having had allotments in the past I have seen so many people go mad at it and then hurt themselves or just get fed up with the hard work and hence lose interest so that is the way I will go steady and sure! Thanks so much for the super comment. Kev.

@hamoostaffat Ай бұрын

Water is the key to allotments, my council wont install water because of reasons that just sound like they cant be bothered, there are less than half the plots taken and half of them have now been cut in half and given to the farmer while our rent doubled The villages around us all have water systems installed and have waiting lists years long Great to see more allotment plots being set up though Although I think you need a tractor, seeing that spade hurt MY back 😂😂

@bramleygarden.8647 Ай бұрын

I do so agree without water for me it would be a non-starter! As for 20 years, I had a local town council plot and we had great water there each plot had a big cattle-type trough on it which had a ball valve and filled up quickly as it was 28mm pipe fed so you could dip 100s of watering cans in and take as much as you liked and it filled up so quick. These new village allotments where I am now are going to get water later this summer in the form of a piped supply to a couple of big tanks. Thanks for your most kind comment. Kev.

@hamoostaffat Ай бұрын

@@bramleygarden.8647 that sounds like heaven right now, currently I drag my water there on a trailer about 50-60ltrs a time, only live 10 mins away but still a pain, thats why we have so many empty plots too, council wont add water It's nice to see new locations being setup though, good luck with it ✌️😊

@LilyGazou Ай бұрын

Allotments here are 8 foot by ten foot.

@TheBeginnerGardener Ай бұрын

Hiy. My new allotment is 18m x 5m (60ft x 16ft). Where is your allotment? I'm in North Yorkshire, UK.

@bramleygarden.8647 Ай бұрын

@@TheBeginnerGardener Yes that's about like these new plots I am on I think they are 20m x6m or thereabouts. The old allotment size was always a plot of 10 poles which was a very old measurement Thanks and good look with your new plot. Kev.