Dongle Blog

Last weekend I finally managed to get myself an allotment. As the photo shows it’s in a pretty bad way. I had a stab at digging it over but the ground is as hard as concrete so I’m holding out for some rain. Instead I turned by attention to getting rid of the rotting carpet and doing something with the carrier bags of unrotted manure, which I suspect will now be of limited use for the soil. I took two sacks of weeks and two rolls of rotten carpet (which stank!) to the dump before deciding to investigate hiring a rotovator.

I hope to get the soil into a decent condition over the winter then have a stab at growing some vegetables next year. It’s something I’ve always been interested in but so far I’ve been limited to growing things in pots or odd corners of the garden so this will be a somewhat larger venture.