Get Started with Your Allotment

Is this the right book for me?

- Are you keen to get an allotment, but don't know where to start?

- Would you like help to successfully grow your own produce?

- Are you thinking about keeping livestock on your allotment?

Get Started with Your Allotment is written by the UK's leading Allotment Society and designed specifically for all those new to allotments. It will take you step-by-step through the joys of allotment gardening, right from the very first stages of finding an allotment through to keeping livestock.

It is designed for both beginners and those with some experience, and has plenty of information for those who wish to involve their children and family members in their new pursuit. With a complete guide to the tools needed, the ideal crops to grow, the soil conditions, troubleshooting and plenty of legal advice, it is the most complete guide available from the country's most experienced and trusted source of allotment wisdom.



Get Started with your Allotment includes:

Chapter 1: What is an allotment?

Why have an allotment?

How much produce can be grown on a plot?

What costs are involved in running an allotment plot?

How much time is required to manage a plot?

Chapter 2: Obtaining plot

Who provides allotment plots

Costs

Allotment tenancies

Chapter 3: Getting started

Clearing a neglected plot

Check your soil type

Organic and inorganic matter

Planning your plot

Working the soil

Chapter 4: Tools, techniques and resources

Tools

Composing

Bonfires

Water

Chapter 5: What to grow

Which crops

Seeds

Vegetable varieties

Herbs

Fruit varieties

Chapter 6: Allotment buildings and other structure

Sheds

Greenhouses and polytunnels

Cold frames and cloches

Propagating frames

Fruit cages

Site and plot security

Chapter 7: Children and allotments

Getting children involved

Chapter 8: Livestock and wildlife on allotments

Livestock

Wildlife

Organic or inorganic?

Chapter 9: Allotment and gardening associations

The benefits of forming an allotment association

The essentials of forming an association

The committee

The first formal meeting

Joint activities

Self-management

Chapter 10: The allotment gardening year

Chapter 11: Recipes



Learn effortlessly with an easy-to-read page design and new added features:

- Personal insights, tips, and summaries throughout the book

- Extension articles online

- Every book gives you one, five and ten-minute bites of learning to get you started