OK so the rotovation happened - immediately! I didn’t even get a chance to take a picture pre ‘weed chopping up and distributing’.
I revised, revised, revised – more than I have ever done in my life. Plans were started and discarded in a crazy scientist like fashion. A spreadsheet was born showing sowing, planting out and harvest patterns. It was colour coded beautifully linking what grew best with what. By the time I had heard ’ Do you not think you might be being a bit amibitious’ for the 15th time I had started to scare myself.
I took a step back and started to prioritise. I pulled out the following sensible advise from other resources and a few at the end of my own!
1. Don’t rotovate regardless of the state of the plot. BUT Don’t lose heart though if you have. It just means you have to work your socks off. There is mixed feeling on using weedkiller. I haven’t used it but it is early days so never say never…
2. Only grow the things you really, really like. Crops you don’t really like take up space and will make you grumpy that you don’t want to eat them.
3. Don’t overdo it when you first start. It is easy to get carried away. The first day I could, I was digging like crazy. The next day when I woke up I was pinned to my back like an upturned turtle – I could only just move my arms.
4. Everyone has their own opinion but as my mum said the other day. There may be easier ways of growing things but essentially there is no right or wrong.
5. Remember it’s all yours, yours, yours! Do what you like and don’t pay heed to the occasional grumpy people who maybe don’t think you have will have the staying power cause you may be under 40 or female or don’t wear the right clothing ( or maybe they know a friend that would like an alloment – how annoying that you got yours) ;-) I have noticed that there a lot of strong opinions on my allotment site!
