A Weekend of Weeding...

On Saturday 19th July the hard work began...

Straight after breakfast I visited the allotment, armed with just a pair of gloves and a pair of secateurs, ready for a morning of weeding, weeding, weeding...
  
The plan for the day was a simple one; to trim the back hedge and remove as many bramlbes as possible then pull up anything on the plot that would come out easily. A quick walk through the site revealed three main types of plants; Tall thick stemmed weeds, invasive low growing Horse/Marestails and a lot of long grass.

Amongst the mess I found a small stand of raspberries, several rhubarb plants and various poles/posts and canes used for previous fruit and vegetables. Anything usable was relocated onto the decking area at the end of the allotment, then anything of no further use was poked into the ground at the head of the plot to define where all the weeds would be dumped whislt awaiting council removal.

After an hours of hand weeding, all the tall thick stemmed stuff was out of the ground and piled at the head of the plot. Two more hours of pulling out as much of the long grass as possible had a huge wall of weeds across the end of the allotment, almsot five meters long, by a meter high and wide...