My allotment transformation weeds to veg

[@thevegplot]

Hi all of you are interested in organic growing and a no dig natural approach to building soil life say hi below if you have a you tube channel and grow food in your garden say hello and link your channel. Let's build an organic community dedicated to mineral rich healthy food 👍

[@nickthegardener.1120]

I totally agree with you.👍👌

[@thevegplot]

@nickthegardener.1120 cheers nick great minds think alike 😁👍

[@nickthegardener.1120]

You did a great job at not strimming the foxgloves😊👌, great job overall. 👌👍💪🙏

[@thevegplot]

@@nickthegardener.1120 haha they didn't all survive mate but the ones that got moved their seed has become abundant in the borders and needs thinning out each year. 👍

[@charlottecapstick789]

You've done an amazing job with that allotment, it can be completely overfacing taking an allotment on when it's in that state but your video is very informative and helpful to those facing that challenge 👍

[@thevegplot]

@@charlottecapstick789 thanks Charlotte hope it helped.

[@GARDENER42]

I took on a mini allotment 20' x 45') in January 2023. Full of weeds. When I started in, I found I mostly had 4-6" of soil over iron mine waste... Made a 2' path up one side by removing the topsoil over an area & digging out the mining waste to make the path, plus another one down the edge of where I marked for a polytunnel & an area for water butts & compost. Ended up with three builder's dumpy bags of weeds & weed roots which I then sheeted with black plastic for 10 months. Covered the rest in cardboard & 4" of my own compost & green waste compost. Result is next to no pernicious/perennial weeds this year & the decomposed stuff in the dumpy bags was spread 1" thick on the beds this year. In a previous plot, I killed Japanese knotweed in 3 years by allowing it to grow at most 4" then cutting it off as deep as possible.

[@thevegplot]

@@GARDENER42 brilliant mate great way of setting up the plot and you did well killing off the knotweed starving the root is the best way to kill all the bad ones that most people here give up on. 👍

[@sowgroweat6987]

Having enough Compost is my current obsession. Heavily sowing my new plots with Mustard is a great plan.

[@thevegplot]

@@sowgroweat6987 hi there my friend I was watching one of Nick's videos last night and he mentioned you, was going to look for you tonight so now I've found you 😁 mustard is superb in more ways than one going to explain more on the cover crop follow up soon. If your breaking new ground I would get some fields or broard beans germinated now in modules and get them in the ground, as soon as it warms up a little sow the mustard around them when they come up trim the bean tops to tiller them. The mustard will probably take over and drown all but the strongest but will benefit from them immensely. Cheers. Part 2 of my makeover is on tonight hard to believe the difference and the crops that grew. Cheers subbed.

[@sowgroweat6987]

@@thevegplot thank you very much, I am very much into my cover crops so I think we have like minds

[@thevegplot]

@@sowgroweat6987 just found out you have a field 😮 very jealous 👍

[@GARDENER42]

Oh & I too have 16"/40cm paths, which receive an annual 2" layer of chipped/shredded prunings, so much finer than yours. It pretty much disappears after 12 months & the plants on the edge of the beds seem to love rooting into the lower layers more than into the beds themselves. Right now, the paths in my garden (now 6 years old) I replenished in early November have masses of mycorrhizal fungi fruiting bodies appearing & mycelium spreading all through the paths & into the beds. No dig/no till is definitely THE way to go once any initial issues are dealt with.

[@thevegplot]

The paths are a big part of the soil health, an energy store they supply the soils fungal balance earth worms love them they also act like sponges when it rains and release the water slowly into the soil when it's dry. My problem here is keeping the chip level just below the beds I can't produce enough compost to keep the beds higher than the paths when they are level the pheasants and partridge (hundreds) rake the chips over the beds just think chickens on the plot ! less of a problem when the paths are lower. So every year I remove some of the older chip to maintain this. After two years in the buckets the chip will go back on top of one bed to lift it. That's the plan. 😁 Cheers

[@NoDigNorm]

I did more or less exactly what you did here on mine in Lancashire. I totally agree with your gardening ideas and philosophy. Look forward to your future content. Cheers and thanks for sharing.

[@thevegplot]

@@NoDigNorm hi Norm nice to hear mate I'm not far from you then in Southport. I'll check out your channel mate. 👍

[@NoDigNorm]

@@thevegplot my KZbin content is not as polished as yours and most of my stuff goes on the Fylde Facebook Allotment group pages only. Nice to hear you are in Southport so not far away!

[@thevegplot]

@@NoDigNorm you must have seen steves seaside allotment channel he's in Lytham somewhere, very organised with planning crops.

[@michaelsplot]

👍👍👍

[@thevegplot]

cheers Michael

[@RichardTaylorgardening]

Hello

[@thevegplot]

Hi Richard, just going over to your channel to take a look are you busy with all the winter jobs? not enough daylight for me at the moment that and hiding from rain. Cheers.

[@stuartdelamare4072]

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[@thevegplot]

cheers 👍