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Love a good toad, they always seem so unphased when discovered.
Ours is a half plot dissected the other way, I wondered if you’d just made it thinner to clear in stages.
I find all the different rules and regs of various allotments interesting - like we can have bees, bonfires in incinerators as long as the wind direction is away from the nearest houses, every plot has to come with a crown of rhubarb but no sheds or permanent structures (boo). All trees have to be fruiting and kept under two metres. Which puts us in a dilemma as there’s a 4M willow squarely our plot ^ which I guess had self seeded. I don’t want to be the guy who shows up and chops down a tree but it does cast some shade and it will only get worse. Need to find the head of the AA and get his opinion.
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Bees and rabbits are kosher, fires are not, except for Nov 5th. Buildings must be no bigger than 6’ in any dimension. Nothing planted that will not yield produce within 1 year (! No fruit bushes?), no trees directly into the soil—pots are OK. Etc etc etc.
You’re right about talking to the committee; having said that, the chair of ours gave my wife this sturdy squash which I think might be fighting talk.
Willow is a weed, take it out without prejudice.
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Approx 25×5m ie half widthwise of an old school plot. The bit at the back is riddled with old carpet, nettles and bindweed so that’s not really useable, will be toad refuge
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