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We have a plot on our site which is hard to let. I can see its potential but it will take a lot of work.
I am thinking about giving up one of my 3/4 plots which is shaded by a neighbouring tree and taking over this hard to let full plot. I would hope to pull it into shape in a year and eventually give up my other 3/4 plot as well giving me only one full plot next year.
This new plot is derelict and covered with broken down buildings, metal sheeting, glass and buttercups. What it HAS, is loads of 8X4 lumps of semi rotten 3/4 inch plywood. There is enough to cover the whole plot with plywood.
I had the idea of creating a plywood mulch to keep the buttercups down and drill through four inch holes with a hole saw at two foot spacings. I would plant the whole plot with tatties through the holes! This would hopefully tidy the plot up, give me a crop of spuds and help to eradicate the buttercups in a single season.
It should also give me time to build a new chicken run and coop, move my spare greenhouse and polytunnel on to the site and generally get rid of the rubbish.
Am I mad?
.........no don't answer that!
I am thinking about giving up one of my 3/4 plots which is shaded by a neighbouring tree and taking over this hard to let full plot. I would hope to pull it into shape in a year and eventually give up my other 3/4 plot as well giving me only one full plot next year.
This new plot is derelict and covered with broken down buildings, metal sheeting, glass and buttercups. What it HAS, is loads of 8X4 lumps of semi rotten 3/4 inch plywood. There is enough to cover the whole plot with plywood.
I had the idea of creating a plywood mulch to keep the buttercups down and drill through four inch holes with a hole saw at two foot spacings. I would plant the whole plot with tatties through the holes! This would hopefully tidy the plot up, give me a crop of spuds and help to eradicate the buttercups in a single season.
It should also give me time to build a new chicken run and coop, move my spare greenhouse and polytunnel on to the site and generally get rid of the rubbish.
Am I mad?
.........no don't answer that!
Half bat sounds like a plan though!
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