Have spent a lot of time lately reading a lot of gardening
blogs and they all have one thing in
common…………..LETS GET CRACKING, so today I went to the plot to start a BIG job. The
aim is to put down landscape fabric so that I can bark over the top to keep the
weeds down as last year as it was a fresh plot the weeds were a Nightmare at
one point some were knee high and I was going down to the plot 2-3 times a week
but just could not control it.
The plot itself is over a half plot but not quite a full
size one its 17meters long by 12meters wide
and I have allowed enough room on the walkways to get a wheelbarrow down
so about 80cm wide, back in November I
put the finishing touches to my raised beds.I spent in total £35.00 on fabric all 20m long I had to shop about for the barging though! The Range was the best as it was not only 20m long but it was 2m wide.
I haven’t got the bark chippings yet but think that’s going
to cost me another £40.00 which will be the most I have spent on the allotment
to date as my ethos is to, where I can recycle or reuse. It took me 3 hours to do a 3rd of the plot so planning on going tomorrow to finish it off as I can spent more time there. Then once that’s done all the structural work is almost complete and I can concentrate on the most important part of the plot…………………………………….the soil.
