So allotment, easy eh, own food on tap, just sit there and let nature take its course, if only.
Welcome to our blog, My name is Scott and my wife is Liz, we live in Hadfield in the Peak District, with our two kids Sophie and Mathew.
We always fancied the idea of growing our own food, but sadly our lovely home doesn't have the garden to help us live our dreams, so in 2010 Liz joined a scheme in the town called "Dig Hadfield",a group formed by like-minded people to find suitable land for allotments. In mid 2011, the land had been found. A piece of wasteland on Salisbury St, owned by a Quaker gentleman who didn't want the land built on, so Dig Hadfield benefited with a 20 year lease.
Our plot is good and bad in equal measure, its good because its a total of 110 sq metres, in a great position with views over the Peak District. BUT and its a big but for now, the plot we have is probably the worst in terms of it needing clearing
Picture shows where we are right now, we have spent about 10 hours in total on site and it doesn't look like we have got very far. First thing we decided to do was cut back the hedge at the back and try and level the land at the back of the allotment so we could get our shed in and assembled so we didn't have to carry our tools up from home everyday. We were lucky that as we began to clear the back of the space, we discovered a path way made of stone slabs about 5cms under the surface.
Its look not a lot but i promise a lot of work has gone into it, I'll go into more details another time, but look at the pictures now and look again over the next few week and I'll keep you posted on how we approach things and maybe anyone reading can pass on there experience, like how i get a large tree stump out the ground, that's Thursdays job.
Liz and sophie ready to go home for tea.
When i've got more time, (in a few days, i'll give more detail of where we are up too, what we are using and what we are going to do next.
I make no apologies for my bobbins use of the english language, i blame thatcher (thats my first and last political comment)
Welcome to our blog, My name is Scott and my wife is Liz, we live in Hadfield in the Peak District, with our two kids Sophie and Mathew.
We always fancied the idea of growing our own food, but sadly our lovely home doesn't have the garden to help us live our dreams, so in 2010 Liz joined a scheme in the town called "Dig Hadfield",a group formed by like-minded people to find suitable land for allotments. In mid 2011, the land had been found. A piece of wasteland on Salisbury St, owned by a Quaker gentleman who didn't want the land built on, so Dig Hadfield benefited with a 20 year lease.
Our plot is good and bad in equal measure, its good because its a total of 110 sq metres, in a great position with views over the Peak District. BUT and its a big but for now, the plot we have is probably the worst in terms of it needing clearing
When i've got more time, (in a few days, i'll give more detail of where we are up too, what we are using and what we are going to do next.
I make no apologies for my bobbins use of the english language, i blame thatcher (thats my first and last political comment)
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