Given spring is already well underway we’re trying to set realistic goals for our first year. On closer inspection the plot seems to have quite a good structure in place already. It looks like whoever had the plot before had gradually worked less and less of it moving away from the west side until they were most recently just working four beds on the east side.
There are the rhubarb and raspberry patches in the north-east quadrant, a spine of currants and as yet unidentified ‘rasberry-like’ plants, and the gooseberries along the west boundary.
The south-east quadrant looks most recently worked with four relatively weed free beds and an overgrown section that looks like it once held two additional beds. There’s also a slab path and an area of bricks that looks like it was once the Base of a greenhouse. The whole western half of the plot is completely overgrown.
As the fruits are in and growing again for the season we’re going to run with it for this year. The priority is going to be in getting the four south-eastern beds up and running again and reclaim the additional two beds that we think were in this area. The western side is going to be a big job so in the short term it’s going to be covered over with membrane to limit the new growth of weeds. We’ll then see if we’ve got time to attack it this year and I’ll grow some ground cover crops like pumpkins that we could put in if we get to that area / could be planted through the membrane.
Bean Allotmenting 