mogga wrote:

OMG! I've got an allotment.
I signed for it yesterday and we went over today and started emptying
the massively full and broken compost heap. (It's leaning over the
path so it's got to be sorted out)

I've got two big trees, a plum and an apple we're guessing by what's
rotting underneath it. And a little cherry and something else but
can't remember - they're about 18 months old.
A vine in the greenhouse
Two rows of raspberries
Some rhubarb! Hurray!
Some other berry thing that is as yet unknown.
Some strawberries
Jerusalem Artichokes

There's what looks and smells like celery in one bed but it's rotting
so I assume that's got to come out.

I assume I know which raspberry canes need pruning out by seeing if
they've got fruit on (It's been neglected since before everything
fruited in the summer...)
and grave vine - not got a clue what to do with that other than clip
off the dead fruit...

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Wow lucky you, I got my first allotment April last year, and all I got was
thistles, bindweed and dandelions and an over active bloke with a tractor
who helpfully ploughed the whole thing about two days after I glyphosated
the whole lot. Still, I get to make a whole new start this year :-) (I
think).

It's amazing, I moved from a house with a large garden and grew loads of me
own veg and all sorts of exotics, now it's pernicious weeds and overgrown
paths and not even allowed a greenhouse or a shed on the allotment

Ah well, move along too much work to be done to moan about not doing it.

Duncan