Hello world

This is my blog.
It has taken just over a year for people to convince me to start writing about what i do.
what is it i do, i have and run a small piece of land in Bedford. commonly know as an allotment.
having an allotment is nothing new, people have been doing it for generations. But i am a cite boy and its all still new to me. so i am going to write about what i find, discover and create.
i have had the land now for just over a year. it was in a state of wilderness when i first came by it. i could have chosen other lots, ones which had been tend lovingly for years but i wanted a challenge. A challenge i got. after talking to some of the residents it turned out the land had been left for 3 years. in which time the weeds, brambles and rabbits had made it a fortress of chaos. From the start i know i would not be using weed killers or machine to do the work. why take on a lot which had been left fallow for so long, if i was going to work on it the easy way.
So every thing has been done by hand, blood, sweat and tears. i think this is why its taken me so long to start writing. other wise it may have read like this:
day 1: cut down brambles
day 12: cut down brambles and some bindweed
day 57: cut down brambles and some nettles. etc
Now this would have not made for very good reading. But because i have had a year and a limited growing season, seen a few things and learnt more, i feel i am ready to pass on some information.