Taken on an allotment - it's totally wild!

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It's also large - around 450m2. I am so excited to get it back into shape because it was beautiful before! (I lived in the street until a few years ago!)

It's so overgrown I've had to cut my way into in to make a path. Bindweed and other lovely stuff including massive thistles and ragwort all over.

But it has an apple tree, a pear tree and I think a big cherry tree (not sure if they're edible cherries tbh!)

It has a chicken coop too, and three sheds (two of which I haven't been able to get into - no one knows where the keys are!)

I'm living in a flat currently so having big open space is absolutely wonderful!

Wow - you've got your work cut out there, but it is going to be amazing.

You might find that the fittings on the shed doors can be unscrewed and taken off altogether, padlock included. If not, then use a hacksaw or bolt cutters.

One of them is a big shipping container and I think it might take drilling the lock out 😑

Had a lot of fun today starting to chop stuff back - it's looking a bit better already!

Is that an owl nesting box?

I'd be putting some thick card or thick black plastic down so i could focus on small bits whilst it started killing weeds/keeping the weeded ground clear.

Ahh this is so lovely, I’m really excited for you and wish I was there to help!! Will you keep updating us? I live rurally, but there’s no allotments nearby - you’ll have a grand time of it.

It does look like an owl nexting box, so maybe go easy on cutting stuff back around it for a couple of months just in case it is occupied.

Ahhh congratulations 🎊

Ours was just as bad when we took it on. Brambles and nettles 6ft tall, 3 greenhouses smashed to smithereens so loads of glass, asbestos etc. It's still an ongoing process 7 years later but we love it.

Best thing we did was hire a brush cutter for the weekend, from Turner Hire. Cost about £60 I think, from Friday afternoon until Monday morning. We chopped through everything so we could see what we were doing, had a bonfire with all the weeds/brambles and then dug over enough of a space for half a dozen little beds to get us going.

Ours was a godsend in lockdown. It's mainly dh that does it these days as we have ponies as well. But it's lovely to go and just sit 😁.

Lovely. I would get the lot strimmed and covered and then go square metre by square metre digging out the weeds. And then cover each square metre with cardboard or thick newspaper so that it keeps the weeds down whilst you do the subsequent square metre by square metre. The weeds will eventually grow through, but it does knock their ferocity down.

Ah nice!

I had an allotment before I moved - used to live in a flat with no garden so I know just how special it is having your own patch of land.

Will you get chickens?

I'd like chickens in the future - not getting them yet because the run is totally overgrown! Thinking ex battery chickens if they're still a thing.

Going up either tomorrow or Tue to tackle a bit more - I have the worst stinking cold atm and just aren't up to fighting with it 🤣