Where there's muck there's... muck? Welcome to your plot!

What are you talking about? This is like, the Hilton of plots...

Very few new plots are ideal, right? Weed free, well tended and tidy allotments are generally not available to people on the waiting list for an oversubscribed allotment because those plots are actually being tended by actual allotmenteers. Doing stuff to make their plots good places for growing vegetables. So, when I went for a look around, my expectations were not high. And it's true, I don't have a perfect plot by any means - no-one else wanted it but I am quite surprised honestly, because despite it's drawbacks, it is a pretty great spot and I can see a lot of potential.

The allotment site is a heavy clay, and pretty hilly (so not immediately ideal) but my plot itself is fairly gently sloping. It hasn't been cultivated in years, so, although the soil maybe not be well fertilised and dug over, it won't be tired and leached of nutrients either. It's not a big plot - but at 10x 12 metres approximately, it's more than enough for my needs. It is overgrown,covered with couchgrass and other weeds that I cant even identify, and it does have some brambles that have rooted themselves in, but it's not so bad or weedbound that you can't imagine it. And it has a big bed already cleared and waiting under black plastic already. So... that's a start.

The thing I like about it most though, is that the last person here left a load of stuff. It may not be very valuable stuff  - a pile of scrap wood and pallets, two huge bags of soil, some chopped up branches (why no shed? I cant afford a shed!), and compost bins. I can make stuff with this. Raised beds are calling, I can make some seating out of the pallets and use the soil to top up the raised beds I plan to make. Thats the plan as far as I'm concerned anyway, maybe I haven't taken something into account, or it's more complicated than it looks. That's the problem with inexperience; you dont know what you don't know.
In conclusion then. I am happy and excited. Its a shame it's going to rain all over the easter holidays, isn't it?