3 Effective Ways to Clear your Allotment of Weeds | How to Remove weeds from your plot | Best Ways!

Clearing a new allotment that is thick with weeds and brambles is a daunting prospect. In this video I talk about the 3 best ways of removing weeds that are easy and effective so you will be growing vegetables and sowing seeds in no time.
Brambles, weeds, nettles and much more take no time at all in taking over an allotment plot and its hard once they have set up home to make it your own again. Its harder still when an allotment has been neglected by previous tenants. Little and often is the best advice but I wish you the best of luck.
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[@TheWtfnonamez]

Brilliant.
When I first got my allotment I thought it would be this ....
Clearance, weeding, planting, crops, shed, thermos.
I quickly realised that it would be better if I did this ....
Shed, thermos, camping stove, lots of digging and plastic sheets, and accepting the fact that it might take me a year to grow anything on the land that wasnt in tubs or pots.

[@RawLondonGardener]

Amazing advice, thanks for sharing your tips!

[@alexandrasara9676]

Very helpful, thank you!

[@md61211]

I like your video & your delivery. Keep up the good work.

[@jameswilmot4537]

Great setup there. I grow peppers in pots and will grow runner beans this year in large pots and on the available plots I have.

[@lisawaters2585]

Good info!

[@noelnoodle7671]

Thanks for posting your allotment videos. They are honestly the best out there. I wondered if you knew of any way of getting rid of mares tail. I’ve tried everything but it just comes back.
Cheers, Jackie

[@TheGreyGardener1990]

Nice of you to say!
They're prehistoric so are brilliant at surviving...the thing I've heard that "can" work and many would frown upon it...is to use a very strong weedkiller with glyphosate in it. Not great for the environment but the strongest out there I believe. What you have to do though is snap it (not completely) or stamp on it just to break the skin if you like to allow the weedkiller to be absorbed. Other than that, keep pulling and hope to weaken it

[@jacquelinejones5790]

Just got my 1st allotment and found your channel. Thank you and will be binge watching some episodes.

[@TheGreyGardener1990]

Congratulations! Feel free to ask any questions 🙂

[@floridabrit9572]

This is the most helpful video I've seen, and I've seen quite a few. I'm a complete newbie here and I thought the traditional way might be best but now I'm thinking long term no dig. As I'm impatient I'm thinking a combination of both. I'm a new subscriber 💯 as I love your content

[@TheGreyGardener1990]

Glad you're finding my videos useful 🙂

[@djay2688]

I had the same situation with weeds when I took on my plot. Wish I'd covered them now tbh, removed the lot by hand during the Summer of 2020. Was exhausting and they soon came back!
Looks like you've got a similar setup to me now. I'm going to try a few no dig beds this year to try and keep weeds down.

[@ryanchisholm1681]

Put cardboard down , then mulch , then topsoil

[@whitevoodooman7276]

Good job
I would love an allotment I eat tons of veg an spuds

[@TheGreyGardener1990]

I love it but it's hard to keep juggling everything. Grown stuff that doesn't take much care this year

[@exprezza1648]

Great video, thanks. So assume still need to strim down to low level before letting loose with rotavator? Could then cover with black plastic and do a couple of no dig beds at a time... that way don't need to pay out all at once for all that compost!

[@TheGreyGardener1990]

Yeah strim down regardless. If you're covering with black plastic, no need to rotavate though. But yeah, mixing it up is good for sure

[@48Nugget]

Great video. Thanks for posting.
We have an allotment and have had half of it under plastic for 12 months. We've not looked under there yet but when we do, how should we tackle what's under there (it will be dead couch grass)? Any tips would be most welcome. Thanks

[@TheGreyGardener1990]

Just dig what's left out. Hopefully shouldn't be much after 12 months. Try and get all the roots out so go down as deep as you can

[@jamesmills4097]

I took an allotment in October, the plot is covered in bricks, paving slabs, broken glass, I've started cleaning a 8x8 section by an old chicken coop and if i dig down the soil is full of broken glass and bricks. So much work

[@TheGreyGardener1990]

That sounds tough. Just do little sections at a time and even if you don't clear the whole lot for this summer, I wouldn't worry too much

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[@TheGreyGardener1990]

Ah don't worry just put it here 👍 cheers

[@pablo9364]

Does your allotment still look this good. Or has your work conflicted with time needed to maintain it

[@TheGreyGardener1990]

Works conflicted with time but also time of year. It needs a winter tidy but I've just moved house too so time is very limited at the moment.

[@leanev4019]

What is the besy time of year to cover the lot and leave it?

[@TheGreyGardener1990]

Any time is fine and the longer you leave it the better the results will be

[@leanev4019]

@@TheGreyGardener1990 thanks so much! We have a community plot we rent, it's around 35 m2. Last year my husband and I spent weeks clearing it... I think it looks 10x worse this year 😭. It's mainly my fault because I was away for two months mostly the beginning of Spring and I couldn't catch the weeds in time and smother them with cardboard.
So definitely want to cover all the planter boxes.
We tried using cardboard in the beginning, but it just shrinks and starts to shrivel up leaving gaps for weeds to poke trough. But now I will cover it all. An leave it for a few months.

[@rubiccube8953]

Get a goat . If you want to do it faster get more goats.
I’ve used many methods over the years on many plots . The old method was weed killer then burn the results killing off surface weed seeds. You could still do that with ammonium sulphamate expensive not dangerous and gets rid of knotweed ,couch grass , bindweed, comfrey, horsetail.
The black plastic method is good because you can do this every off season time. Even in summer you can solarise the weeds.
The tumbledown method is good . Strim with blades, then strimmer line ,level ground , continue to trim often . When all debris like wire , stones gone use a lawn mower with collection box. Eventually it will turn to grass . Then you can cut beds out.

[@mikespeers8281]

You’d be very lucky to be allowed to keep a goat unless it’s your own land. As for ammonium sulphamate, I wouldn’t call it “not dangerous”, it’s banned in Europe, can burn eyes and certainly not a very organic solution to the problem.

[@rubiccube8953]

@@mikespeers8281 Ammonium Sulphamate is used on furniture to prevent fires. It wasn’t banned it wasn’t allowed a license to be sold for weed killing until trials were carried out dogs. Which wasn’t financially profitable for a company since they would not be able to patent it. By the way water can hurt you. Also most crops are being sprayed with glyphosate, EU approved. I would rather grow my own using Ammonium Sulphamate to get rid of very difficult weeds .