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The Allotment Planner: More than 200 Ways to Enjoy your Plot Month by Month

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The mad rush to get your seed in is over and now it’s time to hope the sun stays to finish ripening everything! Should you be more concerned with creating pretty Alys Fowler-inspired garden-allotment hybrids or finding a nice home for your chickens than the size of your yield, try the Garden Planner 2. Whether you are a beginner or seasoned fruit and vegetable grower, have a small kitchen garden or run multiple full size allotment plots. Allotment pests include slugs and snails, aphids, caterpillars of the large and small white butterflies, and birds.

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You may have been thinking about getting an allotment for a while, or it might be a relatively new idea. The layout of your allotment actually has a really important role; the way you arrange your crops can affect the way in which they grow. If you’re offered a plot in winter, or you’re in no rush, try laying cardboard or polythene over weedy areas. As you harvest and empty the beds it time to dig them over and let the winter rain and frosts kill off any infections – unless you like the no dig method of course! You may have winter cabbages, kale, parsnips and broad beans growing in the plot, so keep an eye on these and pick them when they are ready.Whether you use traditional row planting, containers, raised beds or Square Foot Gardening the Garden Planner adapts to suit your gardening style. Apples, pears and plums prefer a more open position, but cooking apples can tolerate a partially shaded position.

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Some plants can't be grown in the same bed and soil, and so are best grown alone in containers or an isolated raised bed. If you want to start growing earlier, put seeds in pots to take advantage of fully leaved plants in springtime. Smothering weeds with opaque mulches (carpet is no longer recommended) requires at least one growing season to work well. Citrus peel soaked in water makes a good aphid deterrent, and caterpillars can be picked off by hand. If your soil isn’t ideal, or you’re not sure the land you’re growing on has been treated well in the past, then raised beds are an excellent option.It can take years to hone the skills and discipline needed to juggle the sowing of different crops, weeding, planting out, controlling pests and managing harvests. Limited use of a weeedkiller might be worth considering on more challenging plots, for example a stumpkillermight be used where woody stumpscannot be readily removed. Stone-picking and digging up weeds are without a doubt the most boring garden tasks, but it makes a huge difference to the quality of what you’re able to grow. A weed-resistant membrane with wood chipping works well too, and don’t forget the stones you dug out from the planting beds – they can be used to build up a pathway as can patio slabs, roofing tiles, and old bricks.

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In reality, this is pretty unlikely – you’re likely to find an unkempt plot that’s overgrown and requiring a lot of TLC. If cleared by early spring, in time for early planting and sowing, a plot can give its full potential from the outset. Having a set of good-quality gardening tools will make all the difference in your planning and planting.Can refer to either home-made garden compost or seed/potting compost: • Garden compost is a soil improver made from decomposed plant waste, usually in a compost bin or heap. If you're a beginner with a smaller allotment, you should expect to spend maybe one or two hours a day (or around 7 hours a week) tending to your plot. This smothers them, cuts out light and deprives them of water so your job will be less back-breaking. Finding an allotment and readying it for cultivation can seem a daunting task, but with these simple steps a productive plot is easier than you might think.

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