You WILL get there - the mic is 👍 - get some large plastic sheets to cover areas as you clear starves the weeds of light and moisture - draw up a plan of where beds will go and where your paths will be. No point in digging up the areas that will become paths, shed bases, sitting ares or greenhouses it's too much hard work. WORK SMARTER NOT HARDER. - strimming of the top growth is only the first step. As you define each bed you will need to dig those roots out otherwise its just a 'haircut' which will regrow. Think your own hair, it gets trimmed and some things need plucking to get the roots out😊 - be careful about putting persistent weeds into a compost heap as it won't get lhot enough for long enough to kill it off and it won't kill weed seeds - DON'T rotivate your plot at this stage as you will chop up the roots and spread them all around - a good first crop to grow this year is broad beans 'The Sutton' a dwarf bean that can be planted in the autumn, over wintered and harvested the following spring. Also look at garlic (Japanese garlic), perpetual spinch, carrot, kale and shallots. Be aware not all varieties of the vegetables are suitable for over wintering do your research. They will need cloche/fleece protection to keep the frost off - plan what you want to grow and eat - include some flowers it looks nice and encourages pollenating insects - do you want a small wildlife pond? - do you want to include fruit of any kind including berries and fruit trees. As they are more permanent crops think carefully about wind, sun light and positioning. Are fruit trees allowed on you allotment site? If so what root stock is allowed? A lot to think about but all worth considering. Have a good nosey around your neighbours plots for ideas but only from the main communal patheways. Looking forwards to seeing your progress 👍😊👍
Hi Hunain. You need the compost bay to have bare ground to let the worms come up and do their stuff. The more worms that eat the contents, the more worm poo and the better the compost. 👍
Nice watch I thought I would be arrested when I got a pallet off the side of a road lol the reality is they can’t give them away fast enough . I will be building compost beds in the next few weeks so I will see how you get on with yours
Hello, thanks for the video. I’ve recently taken on a plot and I have a pallet compost bin, mine wasn’t overgrown but the soil is terrible so I have dug in all kinds of clippings and manure and have planted green manure seeds. All the best with yours sir
I have watched all of your videos so far, I love watching people get a new Allotment and how excited they are. They are always hard work to begin with, and it can be disheartening when you see other people with lovely looking plots and yours is full of weeds. Stick with it, it's worth all the hard work in the end! A few tips from someone who has had 5 Allotments down the years, all of them looked like yours to begin with. Any area you're not growing in, or currently clearing/digging, cover it up or the weeds will be back before you know it. Try and get as many of the roots out as you can. Look up Couch Grass, Bind Weed, and see if you have those while you're digging. I suspect you will have couch grass, it's everywhere these days! If you don't get it out, it will just keep coming back and you will have a plot of grass every year. If anyone sugggests rotovating the plot, don't! Don't rotovate the plot until you have got all the roots out, otherwise you will just be chopping them up and making it 1000x worse than what you started with. Trust me, i've done it and watched others do it. Your new pallet compost bin, those blue pallets are coated with toxic chemicals (some even linked to causing cancer), you want to get rid of that ASAP. On most pallets you will see that they have numbers and letters on them, have a look on Google and it will tell you what they mean, i.e. what they are treated with. You don't want toxic chemicals going into your soil, and absorbed by what you're growing for you and your family to eat it. That huge pile of pallets is a god send if you can get more, dismantle them and make raised beds. If there is more cardboard there, get as much as you can and use it to cover up areas that you're not currently digging. Looking ahead slightly, when you start your digging, all around the edge of your plot there will be all the same kind of weed roots in the paths surrounding your plot, once you start digging and clearing soil, move the soil away from the edges, leave a clear gap so that the roots/weeds don't grow back into your plot again. I have learned the hard way that if you don't, you will be digging it all out again. Best of luck on your journey with your new plot. I look forward to watching your progress :o)
@@g.y.o5419 this has been the most useful comment so far! Thank you VERYYYY much for taking the time out to explain. I’ll try my best to action as much of it as possible :)
All you have to do is ask management for permission to take pallets. Just by being there at night you are actually trespassing not to mention stealing. Though these are stored outside, they may often be used in special situations while they may also be given away or trashed. They may even be sold or there may be an arrangement for some sort of trade. Dont be under the assumption that they are garbage without actually being told by the boss. You can get into trouble for this. All said, they might be very willing to let you take as many as you wish. Choose heavy duty pallets of same dimensions and types. You will be more happy with the results. You can get long deck screws at any hardware store that will totally secure the pallets solid with little effort. I think I bought a jar of 50 long 6" screws for around $20. I built a large raised bed with 8 pallets maybe 4 years ago and its still holding up great and even looks nice. All I did was screw them together and lined with landscape fabric and staples.
The use of clickbait and scripted 'pallet drama' was a little unnecessary but as somebody who's also recently got an allotment I'll be sticking around. Stay genuine and true to you and you'll find your crowd without needing to drive views.
Hi Hunain. Just stopped on your channel. Get rid of the blue pallet ASAP. It contains chemicals and you wouldn't want to be eating food grown from compost from a bay that has that.
Blue and red coloured pallets are called CHEP pallets and are illegal to take. They will belong to the company that has it's name on the actual pallet. They are also very heavily chemical contaminated, so totally unusable in a garden setting - especially where you're consuming what you're growing. This blue pallet will be 100% contaminating your compost. You'll need to rebuild the entire compost bin from safe pallets. Good luck with your garden and your channel =)
so where is the almost got arrested part?!!!! Don't be like other channels just be you and be honest, You could have called it "Pallet Foraging"! Quality Not Quantity xx
@@kelly26b agreed! Unfortunately the youtube algorithm does help is little folks videos to be seen, so have to play the game a little! Hopefully it’s not too annoying!
You WILL get there
- the mic is 👍
- get some large plastic sheets to cover areas as you clear starves the weeds of light and moisture
- draw up a plan of where beds will go and where your paths will be. No point in digging up the areas that will become paths, shed bases, sitting ares or greenhouses it's too much hard work.
WORK SMARTER NOT HARDER.
- strimming of the top growth is only the first step. As you define each bed you will need to dig those roots out otherwise its just a 'haircut' which will regrow. Think your own hair, it gets trimmed and some things need plucking to get the roots out😊
- be careful about putting persistent weeds into a compost heap as it won't get lhot enough for long enough to kill it off and it won't kill weed seeds
- DON'T rotivate your plot at this stage as you will chop up the roots and spread them all around
- a good first crop to grow this year is broad beans 'The Sutton' a dwarf bean that can be planted in the autumn, over wintered and harvested the following spring. Also look at garlic (Japanese garlic), perpetual spinch, carrot, kale and shallots. Be aware not all varieties of the vegetables are suitable for over wintering do your research.
They will need cloche/fleece protection to keep the frost off
- plan what you want to grow and eat
- include some flowers it looks nice and encourages pollenating insects
- do you want a small wildlife pond?
- do you want to include fruit of any kind including berries and fruit trees. As they are more permanent crops think carefully about wind, sun light and positioning. Are fruit trees allowed on you allotment site?
If so what root stock is allowed?
A lot to think about but all worth considering. Have a good nosey around your neighbours plots for ideas but only from the main communal patheways.
Looking forwards to seeing your progress 👍😊👍
Thanks very much! The plan is to interview some other allotment folk around me :)
Hi Hunain. You need the compost bay to have bare ground to let the worms come up and do their stuff. The more worms that eat the contents, the more worm poo and the better the compost. 👍
@@rayansell4260 sound advice! Now i need to rethink this design!
@@TheAllotmentNoob
An easy way to do it is to use some thick gauge (2.5 to 4 mm) galvanised wire and just tie knots with some pliers.
Nice watch I thought I would be arrested when I got a pallet off the side of a road lol the reality is they can’t give them away fast enough . I will be building compost beds in the next few weeks so I will see how you get on with yours
Hello, thanks for the video. I’ve recently taken on a plot and I have a pallet compost bin, mine wasn’t overgrown but the soil is terrible so I have dug in all kinds of clippings and manure and have planted green manure seeds. All the best with yours sir
Your woodworking skills are on a par with mine lol
I have watched all of your videos so far, I love watching people get a new Allotment and how excited they are. They are always hard work to begin with, and it can be disheartening when you see other people with lovely looking plots and yours is full of weeds. Stick with it, it's worth all the hard work in the end!
A few tips from someone who has had 5 Allotments down the years, all of them looked like yours to begin with. Any area you're not growing in, or currently clearing/digging, cover it up or the weeds will be back before you know it. Try and get as many of the roots out as you can. Look up Couch Grass, Bind Weed, and see if you have those while you're digging. I suspect you will have couch grass, it's everywhere these days! If you don't get it out, it will just keep coming back and you will have a plot of grass every year.
If anyone sugggests rotovating the plot, don't! Don't rotovate the plot until you have got all the roots out, otherwise you will just be chopping them up and making it 1000x worse than what you started with. Trust me, i've done it and watched others do it.
Your new pallet compost bin, those blue pallets are coated with toxic chemicals (some even linked to causing cancer), you want to get rid of that ASAP. On most pallets you will see that they have numbers and letters on them, have a look on Google and it will tell you what they mean, i.e. what they are treated with. You don't want toxic chemicals going into your soil, and absorbed by what you're growing for you and your family to eat it.
That huge pile of pallets is a god send if you can get more, dismantle them and make raised beds. If there is more cardboard there, get as much as you can and use it to cover up areas that you're not currently digging.
Looking ahead slightly, when you start your digging, all around the edge of your plot there will be all the same kind of weed roots in the paths surrounding your plot, once you start digging and clearing soil, move the soil away from the edges, leave a clear gap so that the roots/weeds don't grow back into your plot again. I have learned the hard way that if you don't, you will be digging it all out again.
Best of luck on your journey with your new plot. I look forward to watching your progress :o)
@@g.y.o5419 this has been the most useful comment so far! Thank you VERYYYY much for taking the time out to explain. I’ll try my best to action as much of it as possible :)
@@TheAllotmentNoob You're very welcome :o)
@@TheAllotmentNoobI agree 👍
This is SO funny (to me) I don't know if you realize it, but you could probably do standup 😂
@@lindasands1433 thats the first time i’ve been told i’m funny, can i give you my wife’s number, so you can tell her!
blue painted pallets are always someones property. The plain unpainted ones are classed as disposable.no problems with those.keep on going.
All you have to do is ask management for permission to take pallets. Just by being there at night you are actually trespassing not to mention stealing. Though these are stored outside, they may often be used in special situations while they may also be given away or trashed. They may even be sold or there may be an arrangement for some sort of trade. Dont be under the assumption that they are garbage without actually being told by the boss. You can get into trouble for this. All said, they might be very willing to let you take as many as you wish.
Choose heavy duty pallets of same dimensions and types. You will be more happy with the results. You can get long deck screws at any hardware store that will totally secure the pallets solid with little effort. I think I bought a jar of 50 long 6" screws for around $20. I built a large raised bed with 8 pallets maybe 4 years ago and its still holding up great and even looks nice. All I did was screw them together and lined with landscape fabric and staples.
Why put a pallet on the bottom?
Just cable tie ,no need for screwing A couple of quid for some cable ties .😊
Very true!
Great video!❤😊
The use of clickbait and scripted 'pallet drama' was a little unnecessary but as somebody who's also recently got an allotment I'll be sticking around.
Stay genuine and true to you and you'll find your crowd without needing to drive views.
Why are you using a bottom pallet, are you making a hot bed?
Good luck taming the jungle. Just followed to see your progress.
@@patricewright8714 thank you!
go on lad keep it up pal
Thanks mate, the engagement keeps me on it, even if the wife now hates me!
Absolutely loved this ! Keep it up and give us more!
I shall, once i’ve charged my drill 😬
Hi Hunain. Just stopped on your channel. Get rid of the blue pallet ASAP. It contains chemicals and you wouldn't want to be eating food grown from compost from a bay that has that.
Don’t need a bottom pallet x
Need to rethink the design now!
Audio is 💯
You have to get on the no dog method❤
I’m assuming that is no dig! Either way you’re right!
Blue and red coloured pallets are called CHEP pallets and are illegal to take. They will belong to the company that has it's name on the actual pallet. They are also very heavily chemical contaminated, so totally unusable in a garden setting - especially where you're consuming what you're growing. This blue pallet will be 100% contaminating your compost. You'll need to rebuild the entire compost bin from safe pallets. Good luck with your garden and your channel =)
Oh god, wish someone had told me this!
I can second this. 👌
I know a great lawyer if you do get arrested!
@@MrJtariq yeah i’ve heard he’s been working on the Rawanda bill!
It doesn't matter what you wear-gardening is a dirty business.
Love that jacket!
@@Lynette-qh3tw thank you, i think the colours called allotment green 😏
🐝thanks for the great video🌻 subscribed
Clickbait cringe
@@mitchelrobs sorry! Have to play with UA-cam to try and get seen. Otherwise small channels disappear :)
@@TheAllotmentNoob maybe make better content that people actually want to watch then …
@@mitchelrobs Don't watch it you don't like it.
@@rayansell4260 make better content then i will instead of jumping on the allotment bandwagon and making fake drama
so where is the almost got arrested part?!!!! Don't be like other channels just be you and be honest, You could have called it "Pallet Foraging"! Quality Not Quantity xx
@@kelly26b agreed! Unfortunately the youtube algorithm does help is little folks videos to be seen, so have to play the game a little! Hopefully it’s not too annoying!
@@TheAllotmentNoobclick baits get blocked !
Pathetic usless click bait
The clickbait is too strong on this one so not subscribing. Hopefully there's one allotment holder out there not relying on clickbait for views
new subscriber here.
Thanks for joining me on the journey!
Great Video!