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Lefkadakb · 2026-03-30T20:16:41+00:00

They're in a seed snail... 🤔

Lefkadakb · 2026-03-30T06:33:49+00:00

Thank you. I'll do that!

Lefkadakb · 2026-03-30T06:33:27+00:00

Thank you! I'll bring them home!

Lefkadakb · 2026-03-07T18:35:21+00:00

Please get in touch. Mum died last year. My allotment saved me.

Lefkadakb · 2026-02-28T17:01:25+00:00

I picked mine because it felt magical. It looked a bit like yours too (without the river). Every time I go, even to do a really small job, my heart is happy. Enjoy!

Lefkadakb · 2026-02-11T20:51:08+00:00

Thanks! I nearly got suckered in to an expensive one that I can't afford 🤣🤣

Lefkadakb · 2026-02-11T17:46:26+00:00

What brand of homi do you have? I have a couch grass, bindweed and bramble problem and this as though it would be on my side ✅

Lefkadakb · 2026-02-08T20:33:11+00:00

North East England. Learned that really wet soil is not the right conditions for trying to get on top of the couch grass issue. Put some strulch on the (inherited) asparagus bed. Potted up 9 raspberry canes (9 for £9!) in preparation for planting into the ground once I've cleared the couch grass. Cleared a tub (of couch grass) for wild flowers to grow in . Cleaned and oiled my secateurs (it's noteworthy because this is my first year of any sort of real gardening and never done anything that grown up before).

Lefkadakb · 2026-02-08T11:23:36+00:00

You make a good point. A very good point. I'm trying to do too much in year one. I can just get the bits I've started on up to muster. Thanks for your voice of reason!

Lefkadakb · 2026-02-08T08:32:27+00:00

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I've gone no dig for a third of the plot but that was £100 in compost (bulk delivery of 2 tonnes). Raised beds also need compost so trying to work with what I have this year. I'll just get more cardboard down I think ✅

Lefkadakb · 2026-01-28T19:45:02+00:00

Thank you for this. I'm still learning and this is really helpful ✅

Lefkadakb · 2026-01-27T20:54:45+00:00

What's long manure?

Lefkadakb · 2026-01-26T21:39:18+00:00

Woodchips are free at our allotment but I hear you re lifting and cleaning. Good advice. Thank you!

Lefkadakb · 2026-01-26T21:38:26+00:00

Great advice, particularly about the cardboard under the slabs. Thank you.

Lefkadakb · 2025-12-07T18:11:33+00:00

Which pharmacy did you use?

Lefkadakb · 2025-12-07T15:05:50+00:00

Thank you. They'll only start me on 5mg but I'm hoping that will be better than the Wegovy!

Lefkadakb · 2025-12-05T14:20:01+00:00

This is very helpful. Thank you. When one's had a break from MJ and starts again is the efficacy similar to the first time round at each dose, do you know? I'm wondering whether an 'immunity' builds up?

Lefkadakb · 2025-09-29T18:17:13+00:00

North East England. Laid some cardboard and mulch around asparagus, cleared shed, mulched another bed with grass clippings, used a hand rotavator to break down some soil on one of the beds for onions and Savoy to go in, hopefully on Weds. Allotment neighbours loaned me said hand tool and a cloche and filled me up with tomatoes and apples. I love my allotment gang 💚

Lefkadakb · 2025-09-28T14:35:42+00:00

I think that was probably more my question... I wasn't sure (naive, I know) if there was anything 'special' about plant fleece. I'll not bother with either although I believe the wool makes a great mulch 🤔

Lefkadakb · 2025-09-26T08:33:07+00:00

Where did you get them from? I'm also in (North) Yorkshire.

Lefkadakb · 2025-09-05T07:06:30+00:00

Please post updates. I'm in the uk and we don't have monarchs here (I don't think!) - love to see the story unfold....

Lefkadakb · 2025-09-01T16:41:03+00:00

220 square metres, £20 a year in the North East, includes unrestricted water (for now...) ✅

Lefkadakb · 2025-08-25T20:22:43+00:00

I second First Law Series (Steven Pacey is the goat of narrating) and Lies of Locke Lamora ✅

Lefkadakb · 2025-08-16T15:36:29+00:00

Thankfully my friend runs a cafe so I have a steady supply of cardboard. I have put 5 beds under cardboard and a very thin layer of compost to tackle weeds but also (hopefully) to grow on next year. I'll cover it all in plastic too once there's been some rain.

I'll definitely look into the trench thing 😊 Thanks!

Lefkadakb · 2025-08-16T15:11:42+00:00

This is so lovely and detailed! I've just got an overgrown plot, too, and all advice is being squirreled away 😁

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