Well, we've decided we are going to have to use weedkiller to keep the committee happy. We found a few stories around the net that resonated, like this one:
and this one made me smile!
Basically, its seems allotment committees expect semi-industrial style ground utilisation, and want your plot to be excessively tidy. To be honest, I don't really understand this - nature isn't tidy. Their advice on the couch grass is to keep digging it, but this is just making it worse (our plot was in a seriously bad way when we took it on).
So, there it is, I've spayed some weed killer on the worst areas.
I've also had to remove my path that I was making out of recycle bits - stone, dries organic matter etc, as apparently it was just considered 'rubbish' on the plot.
We'll see what happens next I guess. Hopefully the weedkiller is a one-off appeasement act - the plot really needs to be covered for a long time to do it naturally, but I'm not going to get away with this.
Most of my friends haver also had 'The Letter' at some point - it's not very pleasant, and really should be done a different way.
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