The Allotment Book

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I'm a first time veg gardener who is clearing land at my home to turn into an allotment (60ft x 40ft). Our contributors are encouraged to go forth and find distinctive visions that startle us, rural or urban, modern or prehistoric, industrial, post-industrial, fantastical, natural, political, however they come.

It doesn't matter how much space you have available, with key techniques such as sowing seeds, assessing soil and choosing the right plants for each environment - these top tips and tricks are all featured within this how-to-garden book. With everything from creating a bed to an onion rack, it gives the beginner a good know how of what is needed and how. Many welcome the strong, supportive sense of community (although you are equally free to be peacefully alone, if you prefer). All in all, a very enjoyable book, far more useful and more fun than the average turgid tome of gardening facts. All content on the Allotment Book is now freely available with no pay wall or subscription required to view.

My aim is to help you achieve this vision of utopia and this book series may just be the key to help you unlock the gate, take one giant step onto your new plot and have the confidence and tools to help you understand what working the land actually entails. Some sites are privately owned – by churches or public utilities, for example – and the best way to find out how to rent one of these is to ask an existing tenant.

This is a great starting point to make your decisions from giving you a better control of your time and space. There may also be restrictions on using hosepipes, lighting bonfires, creating ponds, planting trees or fencing the plot (especially with dangerous materials like barbed wire).He is also a regular TV presenter, appearing on Granada’s Cook’s Garden and From the Ground Up for Carlton. The background to allotment gardening as a unique and important social movement is more clearly charted. It has a lot of details about clearing ground, which mulches and for how long, advice on tools, then on sowing throughout they year, including for early and winter crops.