7th August 2008 Day One - The Viewing

We met up with Trish, the Town Clerk, today to view our possible new and first ever allotment. We'd expected weeds. There was bound to be weeds. But the weeds in the first plot we were shown were monsters. Killer veg eating alien weeds!

Trish showed us another plot, twice the size but fewer weeds.

Now the dilemma - Trish and her hubby had taken the plot next to monster weeds and were already well into clearance stage 1. Hubby had dug a deep trench to tackle the bindweed and there was a very grand set of fence posts running the full length of one side which Trish explained would mark their wildlife loving hedgerow.

All very ambitious with the potential to make our attempts look very half-hearted if we were right next door. Bit like the 'always park your old rust bucket next to an even bigger rust bucket in the carpark to make it look less rusty than it really is' syndrome.

After some deliberation, during which time the kids stung both themselves on nettles and got muddy wet feet in a huge puddle, we finaly chose the plot three rows down from Trish which was twice the size (i.e. twice the work) but much less weeds. The extra size also means we can fit a greenhouse and shed in at a later stage.

Okay so now the hard works starts...