New sub #62…From experience I have learned you need your slabs higher that the soil otherwise when it rains the soil washes on to the slabs

@JacobsonFamilyAllotment

3 ай бұрын

Thank you. Will have a look maybe maybe take away some soil and make it even. Thanks

Looking forward to watching your journey. I've just started my KZread journey. Got my seeds sown 🌱. Hope you have a super Spring and Summer 🌞.

@JacobsonFamilyAllotment

3 ай бұрын

Just gave you a sub. Good luck with the journey. I still need sow most my stuff my cheap this year and buy plug plants 😂

@TheBeginnerGardener

3 ай бұрын

@@JacobsonFamilyAllotment Amazing. Thanks for the sub!

Great idea - using the slabs for a pathway. It's coming along - slow but sure. You have some exciting plans.

@JacobsonFamilyAllotment

3 ай бұрын

I can picture it it's just getting there 😅. Can't wait for next year

Put some slabs by your gate and water butt these areas get a lot of use and can get very muddy.

@JacobsonFamilyAllotment

3 ай бұрын

Thanks. will make the path go to the gate. There is a leak next from the guttering was thinking of putting a water butt there too. Thanks

Just thinking about what would bring smiles during the clearing of all that rubbish. One or two perennial flowers just tucked in by the water tank, sheltered. Something fragrant or bright and bold. Bricks do make a raised bed, if only 1 or 2 bricks high. Small steps make the best gardens.

@JacobsonFamilyAllotment

3 ай бұрын

That's a good idea. We are doing a garden center trip soon and will probably get a few flowers to brighten the place up. There is a few bricks in the ground will take them up to see if I can make a bed. Thank

Absolutely knocking it out of the park (a baseball term for a really good thing 😅😅). Your hard work all seems a bit much to you now but it will pay in huge dividends soon 👍. Keep up the great job but remember to enjoy it too. Happy Easter 🐣, Ali 🌞🇨🇦

@JacobsonFamilyAllotment

3 ай бұрын

😂 thank you Ali. It looks like an uphill struggle just need to keep plodding on and will get there in the end. Thank you happy Easter too

@myrustygarden

3 ай бұрын

@@JacobsonFamilyAllotment if I can make one suggestion it’s get a bed in, even one and plant something, it makes all the difference in the world to your enthusiasm if you see something growing even dare I say it if you have to buy starter plants to do it

@JacobsonFamilyAllotment

3 ай бұрын

@@myrustygarden I will do thanks. Need to get potatoes in soon so probably be a bed for them

Look's like the water butt doing its job well,those slabs will make good path ask the neighbouring plot holder if you can have his slabs, it will make a stronger base for your water butt. The thing is now you have a blank canvas , now the ideas will start flooding in Good luck and enjoy it, take care

@JacobsonFamilyAllotment

3 ай бұрын

It's doing a really good job didn't think would get that much. Good idea for the slabs under the water but will see how many I will use for the path see what I have spare. Need to catch the neighbour first I have never seen them Hopefully the ideas will thank you you too

That water butt looks decent. I managed to get some wood chips from a tree surgeon, have you tried contacting a local one?

@JacobsonFamilyAllotment

3 ай бұрын

Think I am going to be putting a Facebook post up soon asking any local tree surgeons if they have any going.

It's going to be hard graft, good luck.👌👍🙏🤞

@JacobsonFamilyAllotment

3 ай бұрын

Thanks will need it 😂

Yeah mate they fill up quickly I've got 3 and a half 110 litre ones full

@JacobsonFamilyAllotment

3 ай бұрын

Surprised how much I collected. Do you they water evaporates much with the hole in the top

@TonyandTeddysWorld

3 ай бұрын

@@JacobsonFamilyAllotment no mate I have no lids on mine and it's fine, I have 4 linked together you can see it in a couple of my videos, that might change in the summer though I guess you could get a little evaporation.

@JacobsonFamilyAllotment

3 ай бұрын

@@TonyandTeddysWorld thanks will have a look how you have done it

@TonyandTeddysWorld

3 ай бұрын

@@JacobsonFamilyAllotment ok mate, I started with 2 then added another 2 when I got more, mine are using the polytunnel

How does an allotment work? Do you rent it yearly?

@JacobsonFamilyAllotment

3 ай бұрын

Yes so you put your name down with the local council and wait to a plot of lad is free. And you pay yearly to rent mine is costing just over £40 a year. You have to grow fruit and vegetables on it and can keep chickens also