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it worth taking on an overgrown a
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lotment Welcome to Gardening with Ben
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and we're continuing with our series of
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little videos talking about taking on an
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aotment and getting started with growing
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your own vegetables and the exciting
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time of starting We've talked previously
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about how to apply to an aotment and
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what state you often find your a lotment
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in And today we're going to talk about
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is it worthwhile taking on an overgrown
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aotment Well the answer is yes It may
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look absolutely daunting when you see
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weeds to your shoulder length but it can
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be exciting as well because sometimes
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you're growing on an aotment from the
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previous tenant they've sometimes left
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some treasure behind hidden underneath
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all the weeds So the best thing to do
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first is go around and have a look see
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if there's any fruit bushes hidden
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within the weeds and have a look and try
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and work out what's what But the only
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issue is that there could be a lot of
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rubbish and glass on there So make sure
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you're careful when you're wandering
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around and be careful of what's on there
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So when you've obviously got an
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overgrown a lotment it's good to start
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from scratch and design it to how you
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want it to be because if you take on a
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normal a lotment people sometimes have
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got layouts set out and it's not always
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what you want it to be So you spend more
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time taking it all out and rebuilding it
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to how you want it to be But if you've
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got an overgrown plot you can design it
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to how you want it to be And obviously
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the first thing would be to do is to
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trim it all down And once you've trimmed
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it all down then you can work out where
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things are going to grow And what I
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usually do is I usually draw a plan of
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how I want my a lotment to look Whether
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it be this year or whether it be years
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into the future how your ideal a lotment
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would look And there's c lots and lots
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of tools out there to help you nowadays
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Obviously there's AI and everything like
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that what can help you design an aotment
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And obviously you'll need to look around
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for like shady areas and what gets full
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sun to where you want to grow your
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produce So it's exciting taking on an
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overgrown plot And the best thing to do
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as well is take a photo at the beginning
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and the progress that you're making
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because then you can record how well
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you're getting on and share it with
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other people and people will encourage
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you There's a good gardening community
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out there that people get involved in
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and they'll cheer you on There's a few
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negative people telling you how things
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should be done but just ignore them and
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do what you want to do when you want to
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do your gardening And it's all exciting
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stuff and you can see the progress that
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can be made And I wish I'd taken photos
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of my a lotment when I first got mine
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because mine was an absolute state had
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it 20 years now and it's looking in good
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shape A lot of bindw weed and everything
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like that but we're living we live with
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that So yeah taking on an overgrown plot
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can be challenging And is it worth it
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Yes it certainly is I'd say so And I'd
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recommend anyone doing it I've seen
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other people on the a lotment site
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taking on overgrown plots and they look
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absolutely fantastic now So definitely
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take one on if you can get one
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and enjoy it and do it in small bits and
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don't rush yourself and track the
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progress that you're making So I hope
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you've enjoyed that little video today
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Make sure you come back for the next one
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Give us a follow Until next time
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everyone remember keep smiling keep
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shining and keep gardening with Ben
