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blue painted pallets are always someones property. The plain unpainted ones are classed as disposable.no problems with those.keep on going.

Good job! Spinning camera around fast made me a bit dizzy!

Blue and red coloured pallets are called CHEP pallets and are illegal to take. They will belong to the company that has it's name on the actual pallet. They are also very heavily chemical contaminated, so totally unusable in a garden setting - especially where you're consuming what you're growing. This blue pallet will be 100% contaminating your compost. You'll need to rebuild the entire compost bin from safe pallets. Good luck with your garden and your channel =)

Hi Hunian were new to your channel and recently taken on an allotment so we are looking forward to hearing your tips we also inherited a jungle of a plot that we are slowly working through we was on the waiting list about a year and two plots came up but chosen the one we got because it was a bit out of the way and quieter were also vlogging our process looks forward to seeing more :)

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It doesn't matter what you wear-gardening is a dirty business.

All you have to do is ask management for permission to take pallets. Just by being there at night you are actually trespassing not to mention stealing. Though these are stored outside, they may often be used in special situations while they may also be given away or trashed. They may even be sold or there may be an arrangement for some sort of trade. Dont be under the assumption that they are garbage without actually being told by the boss. You can get into trouble for this. All said, they might be very willing to let you take as many as you wish. Choose heavy duty pallets of same dimensions and types. You will be more happy with the results. You can get long deck screws at any hardware store that will totally secure the pallets solid with little effort. I think I bought a jar of 50 long 6" screws for around $20. I built a large raised bed with 8 pallets maybe 4 years ago and its still holding up great and even looks nice. All I did was screw them together and lined with landscape fabric and staples.

You WILL get there - the mic is 👍 - get some large plastic sheets to cover areas as you clear starves the weeds of light and moisture - draw up a plan of where beds will go and where your paths will be. No point in digging up the areas that will become paths, shed bases, sitting ares or greenhouses it's too much hard work. WORK SMARTER NOT HARDER. - strimming of the top growth is only the first step. As you define each bed you will need to dig those roots out otherwise its just a 'haircut' which will regrow. Think your own hair, it gets trimmed and some things need plucking to get the roots out😊 - be careful about putting persistent weeds into a compost heap as it won't get lhot enough for long enough to kill it off and it won't kill weed seeds - DON'T rotivate your plot at this stage as you will chop up the roots and spread them all around - a good first crop to grow this year is broad beans 'The Sutton' a dwarf bean that can be planted in the autumn, over wintered and harvested the following spring. Also look at garlic (Japanese garlic), perpetual spinch, carrot, kale and shallots. Be aware not all varieties of the vegetables are suitable for over wintering do your research. They will need cloche/fleece protection to keep the frost off - plan what you want to grow and eat - include some flowers it looks nice and encourages pollenating insects - do you want a small wildlife pond? - do you want to include fruit of any kind including berries and fruit trees. As they are more permanent crops think carefully about wind, sun light and positioning. Are fruit trees allowed on you allotment site? If so what root stock is allowed? A lot to think about but all worth considering. Have a good nosey around your neighbours plots for ideas but only from the main communal patheways. Looking forwards to seeing your progress 👍😊👍

Good luck taming the jungle. Just followed to see your progress.

Love that jacket!

Ask neighbouring plot holders for their advice. They know the type of soil, what works, what doesn't.

Why are you using a bottom pallet, are you making a hot bed?

so where is the almost got arrested part?!!!! Don't be like other channels just be you and be honest, You could have called it "Pallet Foraging"! Quality Not Quantity xx

No dig methods are good

Hi Hunain. You need the compost bay to have bare ground to let the worms come up and do their stuff. The more worms that eat the contents, the more worm poo and the better the compost. 👍

You have to get on the no dog method❤

go on lad keep it up pal

Great video!❤😊

Just cable tie ,no need for screwing A couple of quid for some cable ties .😊

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I have watched all of your videos so far, I love watching people get a new Allotment and how excited they are. They are always hard work to begin with, and it can be disheartening when you see other people with lovely looking plots and yours is full of weeds. Stick with it, it's worth all the hard work in the end! A few tips from someone who has had 5 Allotments down the years, all of them looked like yours to begin with. Any area you're not growing in, or currently clearing/digging, cover it up or the weeds will be back before you know it. Try and get as many of the roots out as you can. Look up Couch Grass, Bind Weed, and see if you have those while you're digging. I suspect you will have couch grass, it's everywhere these days! If you don't get it out, it will just keep coming back and you will have a plot of grass every year. If anyone sugggests rotovating the plot, don't! Don't rotovate the plot until you have got all the roots out, otherwise you will just be chopping them up and making it 1000x worse than what you started with. Trust me, i've done it and watched others do it. Your new pallet compost bin, those blue pallets are coated with toxic chemicals (some even linked to causing cancer), you want to get rid of that ASAP. On most pallets you will see that they have numbers and letters on them, have a look on Google and it will tell you what they mean, i.e. what they are treated with. You don't want toxic chemicals going into your soil, and absorbed by what you're growing for you and your family to eat it. That huge pile of pallets is a god send if you can get more, dismantle them and make raised beds. If there is more cardboard there, get as much as you can and use it to cover up areas that you're not currently digging. Looking ahead slightly, when you start your digging, all around the edge of your plot there will be all the same kind of weed roots in the paths surrounding your plot, once you start digging and clearing soil, move the soil away from the edges, leave a clear gap so that the roots/weeds don't grow back into your plot again. I have learned the hard way that if you don't, you will be digging it all out again. Best of luck on your journey with your new plot. I look forward to watching your progress :o)

🐝thanks for the great video🌻 subscribed

Don’t need a bottom pallet x

Why put a pallet on the bottom?

Keep up the good work. 👍

Great Video!

Audio is 💯

Absolutely loved this ! Keep it up and give us more!

I know a great lawyer if you do get arrested!

Took me a week to clear my full size seeded grass plot with a hand sickle. I too had high hopes for my good garden strimmer, but no. If you're reading this and are about to clear a plot, garden strimmer are for BLADED grass of a certain length. If you have long tubular grass - nope. If you have woody or fiberous weeds - nope again. If its long then you have to strim from the top down, there is no hacking it at the base. If the grass has been left long and has been blown over or trampled then you'll have a dense carpet of layed grass that will be wet at the base and full of slugs, I had to manually do all of that. Frogs also like long grass so cut it long on the first go, they are nippy and generally get out of your way beforehand. You also don't know what's under there (stones etc) so cut high then go in two weeks later to finesse. The grass will look dead, it isn't. You'll find that some of it will be couch grass and invasive grasses that'll invade your beds, but you can handle those when you can see what you're dealing with 😊

My wife and I waited 2 years and got our plot the first week of June. Petrol strimmed the plot 3 times to get the weeds and grass down. Then covered the whole lot with weed sheeting , we are now working from the back of the plot uncovering as we go., keeping the weed sheet down has stopped anything growing back which makes life a lot easier We have managed to get four beds up and running so far and have a good few plants growing. It all takes time dont try to do to much. Enjoy it though.

Congratulations on the new allotment, we have a three year waiting list here as well. I am supposed to be going in with a friend when she finally reaches the top of the list. While you’re sorting out the weeds, work out which part of your plot gets most sun and at which times of the day so you can plan what plants are best in each area. No reason you can’t set up a few raised beds (if you’re allowed them) and do the no dig method and plant out some quick growing crops to keep you motivated this year and then you can plan bigger for next year. Good luck 👍🏻

Congratulations with your little baby girl. I'm curious to see what your paradise is going to look like. I'm a first year allotment holder in the netherlands.

Watch Emmas allotment diary she isfrom south London and has two allotments she has mottos wack it in and if pkabts die they die she makes mistakes but she doesnt be bothered by them she dies what she has gut feelings about. Sometimes things work out sometimes they dont and sometimes plants surprise you shes entertaining to watch and shows the reality of allotment life. My point is don't be too hard on yourself and dont worry for technicalities do what you feel is right if it works it works if it dont it don't and start seeds at home under grow lights and heat mat get compost and seeds which ever you want. Things such as carrots direct sow but others start at home when there strong enough and have true leaves plant out ise netting to prevent carrots white flies or cabbage butterflies because if you grow cabbage and cauliflower they will lay eggs on your brassicas and the caterpillars that hatch will demolish every brassica and get snail and slug repellent to prevent the snails amd slugs eatimg your crops If you want to know more download sowing calendar amd it has the pests ypu can face the plants you can grow it has a monthly index to show what you can plant/start the exact month your in Its helped me alot as i am a novice abd order a seeds box off Amazon it has 100 seeds inside it for you to plant and you can order off simply seed,budget seeds for reasonably priced even cheap seeds hope this helps you and inshallah you will succeed

Enjoy your first allotment plot and dont be surprised when you find treasures that could be useful for you when you eventually grow your crops trust the process and take your time you will see the diffrence of your hard work and dont dispose of your stinging nettles chop them in a bucket add water and let them sit a few weeks thats home made fertiliser but you have to dilute it so get a cup add to a watering can add water and use it

Go to the library borrow a couple of books on Allotment Gardening UK. Started gardening as a 10 year old, why because my parents refused to garden, now 50 years later, will admit am still learning, still make errors, but our garden could feed 5 of us for 20 years, just slightly bigger than yours.

Don’t rotovate spreads the weeds and damages the soil. Cover it and do no dig beds

You are coming along nicely just do a bit each time and eventually your efforts will be rewarded. Are you going to keep the overgrowth for compost? Congratulations on the wee one. From NZ.

No no no don’t rotavate you’ll just chop up the roots and then even more will grow 😮

Keep it cut..your allotment neighbours will like you And use the arisings to make a lasagna bed with cardboard ...and shop compost ...plant some kales for winter..lovely that there isso little litter I hope the baby and mother are well

Just signed for my plot today and I am so excited!!! My plot size is 3.5 rods and is covered in thick grass. Not sure where to start!

You can buy pre- mixed fuel .

Mate ditch that fuel, chainsaw oil is for oiling the chain, it'll galze up the cylinder and carb, get some 2 stroke oil, suggest you also get a can of carb cleaner spray, take the air filter off the strimmer and give the carb a real good spray, then run some clean fuel with the proper 2 stroke oil mix, that should clean it out! Pile up all your strimmage into one big pile, turn it every 2 weeks 3 times, you'll need a lot of compost to get going and that pile should get hot enough to lill most of the weed seeds, good luck!

youtube.com/@charlesdowding1nodig?si=F_dR3lU3atv_BPWf This guys channel might really help you.

Congratulations!! Happy new Father's day!!

Don't know how the council have the cheek to rent pens out in this state, hope you are getting at least 6 month's free rent, just concentrate on getting rid of all the green first then think about where your beds are going to be, good luck.

Hello mate, just remember what works for one person may not work for another, we all have our own ways of growing, sowing, planting out etc. No one knows everything, we are all always learning new things, techniques etc. Like everyone else, you will make mistakes along the way, but you will learn from those mistakes. I made loads of mistakes and occasionally still do, like lots of other youtube allotmenters. You have made a good start on the plot, if i had to give you one bit of advice, it would be. Dont do too much too soon or you will sicken yourself. Congratulations on the birth of your second daughter, glad mum and daughter are doing well.

I would not rotavate. If you have weeds that grow from root fragments, you will make many plants. E.g. Couch grass, bindweed etc

Bar oil in a 2t strimmer now blown up