Grapes Allotments - Before And After

[Happy Horticulturalist]

We got our plot in January and it looked like this (from the North end):



After a few weeks it now looks like this -

North end from left:



North end from right - yes, there was a redcurrant bush and tree hidden under the brambles in the first picture (cherry I think):



Obviously, it's a work in progress!

[susieq100]

You're going to get some lovely rhubarb too.;-)

[hawthorns]

10 months on

took it over last april. bloody hard work got it to look like this

[CADS]

Hi

I have been feeling pretty despondent by the state of the soli on my stoney, clay plot. So, I have decided to post some before and after photos on here to make me feel better.

I took over my plot in Nov 2009 but between moving house, snow and Christmas, I didn't actually start working on it till March 2010. Half the plot had never been worked and was used as a dumping ground for the other plot holders and the other half was part of an overgrown neighbouring plot.

I spent last summer and spring digging couch grass, bramble and bindweed roots and clearing the buried carpet amongst other things. So, after lots of back ache and several trips to the tip, one half the plot is as I want it but I haven't decided what to do about the top half which is covered with carpet/plastic. Think I will post a thread asking for ideas.

Here are the before photos will post after photos next.

CADS

[CADS]

And here is what the plot looked like at the end of July 2010.

[susieq100]

You are going to have some fabulous pictures to post later this summer when all your beds are at the height of their productivity. Transformation! You must have worked so hard.

[Graham K]

This is before! Officialy ours from yesterday (28/04/11).

After, may take a while!

Graham.

[susieq100]

Blimey ... where are the boundaries? I should call the BBC - you may find a lost tribe in there. David Attenborough will need to be informed! Good luck.

[banksy]

We have just got our plot last weekend (15/05), lots of daunting work ahead but looking forward to every minute of it!

We spent an hour or so clearing all of the non organic debris that was strewn across the plot.

Next up is to dig over plot and remove all of the nettle roots.



Iain

[SarzWix]

Welcome to the Vine banksy Definitely a bit of work ahead of you, but very rewarding when you post the 'After' pics

[Suky]

About time I updated too. I got my half plot on Feb 4th, not cultivated for at least 8 years. It has been hard slog but I have planted as I went and now have about 2/3 done.
This shows the potatoes and the beans and peas.
This is my butternut squash with a frame to grow over.
A closeup of the frame - 2 old arches cut down where the base had rotted and covered with a patchwork of clematis netting.
All mod cons, a wheelbarrow from a skip, patched up by DH and a waterbutt yet to be attached to any water source Mmm, wonder why the picture is horizontal?

[FionaH]

Hardly looks like the same place Suky, well done you!

[Suky]

Thank you so much, Takes a bow
Hard to believe it was that muddy meadow that you visited in March?

[binley100]

Thats cracking Suky .....now can you come lend a hand with mine ?

[Suky]

Sorry, still have the compost mountain to shift from behind the shed. That's after I've dug out the bindweed and nettles