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 [...]
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I feel like I am getting somewhere!
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Well, last Sunday I decided I really need to brave the weather and go and do some allotmenting. The previous two weekends had brought snow, and the forecasts for Sunday were for rain showers and hail. However, it turns out that the weathermen got it wrong.
I trundled over to the plot and decided to start [...]