What you need to start on an allotment

Well, I’m no expert, but this is what I have learned so far:
For the Allotmenteer
Enthusiasm and determination!
Decent Gardening shoes/wellies
Proper Gardening gloves
A notebook/diary and pen/pencil
A flask (for tea/water)
Starting out and standby tools
A tape measure
Garden twine/string
Bamboo sticks or other posts for marking out
Wheelbarrow or at best – a lightweight trug
Some seeds!
Essential Tools
Scissors/sharp knife/secateurs
Trowel
Spade
Dibber
Fork
Hoe (draw hoe preferrably, but [...]

Read Full Post »