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Came across this wonderful tip today. Wish I'd known this earlier and is a real boon for those with bad backs. When taking on a new allotment don't bother to dig it over if it is overgrown. This is what you can do:
1. Buy lots of worms, place them on the soil at equal distance.
2. Use cardboard, recycle from local supermarket etc and cover your entire plot.
3. Cover cardboard with a couple of inches of manure.
4. Cover manure with black plastic sheets.
5. Plant potatoes or courgettes through the plastic, via a slit.
The cardboard will rot down in 5-6 weeks, the worms will take it down and at the end of the season you can take off the plastic and your plot should be a lovely turned piece of land.
Be interested to know if this works!
Andrewo
1. Buy lots of worms, place them on the soil at equal distance.
2. Use cardboard, recycle from local supermarket etc and cover your entire plot.
3. Cover cardboard with a couple of inches of manure.
4. Cover manure with black plastic sheets.
5. Plant potatoes or courgettes through the plastic, via a slit.
The cardboard will rot down in 5-6 weeks, the worms will take it down and at the end of the season you can take off the plastic and your plot should be a lovely turned piece of land.
Be interested to know if this works!
Andrewo
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