Tips for Good Gardening

You’ll find this guide is packed with good advice about allotment gardening, from digging the plot to planning year-round use. Adopt the good practice set out here and you should find the experience of managing a plot both enjoyable and rewarding.

This guide isn’t a comprehensive manual, and can’t answer all your gardening queries. But there’s plenty of help available: the borough’s libraries have a great selection of gardening books; the internet is host to gardening clubs, allotment societies (try www.allotments.org for local information) and commercial information; local gardening societies provide advice and your fellow plot-holders will often be able to help.

Don’t rush – if you try do too much too quickly, your tasks will become burdens. Instead, do a little and often. See Preparing the Plot for some ideas on getting your allotment into shape.