Allotment by Paul Murphy

Jamie At Home Guide to keeping an allotment

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Date Published:
25/10/2007
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Allotment advice

While you await your plot it is worthwhile doing a little preparation, and the internet can provide the perfect kick-start for your gardening adventure.

The National Society of Allotment and Leisure Gardeners has long been recognised as the national representative for allotment gardeners.

Allotments UK provides a comprehensive guide to the subject with an excellent forum where gardeners swap hints and tips.

Allotment Growing is a more personal site, offering advice, forums and recipes as well as a brilliant diary updated regularly that takes you through the gardener's year.

Also indispensable is a gardening handbook to keep on-site that will help you tell your weeds from your Winter Savoy (allotments are not very wi-fi friendly).

There are plenty to choose from but of the newer ones, The Allotment Keeper's Handbook by Jane Perrone will get you started.

Where to get started

  • Try and get a plot near a water supply (this will save on endless traipsing back and forth with heavy buckets).
  • If you have children, get them involved with their own corner of the plot and their own tools.
  • Your plot should be within easy walking or cycling distance.
  • Be sociable. You may need some watering doing when on holiday.
  • Growing organic crops is not easy. Think carefully before committing yourself to this, especially if you are inexperienced.
  • Some crops are more pest-proof than others, so choose these for your first year.

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