Step 2......all it takes is patience and vision,a lot of vision!!!

When you are faced with 2 children and a husband who don't have the same vision let alone enthusiasm for digging all morning or afternoon you have to become inventive and dig deep in yourself for the want to carry on!

We had to spend two long weeks every morning myself and the boys and every evening with my husband too just pulling out the roots that run at least 2m along the ground. My boys have nick named them the monsters!They really do look like strange alien things.

one of the many champions!

After we had done for as long as we felt possible we gathered all the little piles into one giant heap at the end of the plot:

one of the little heaps of weeds and roots

We then built the boys a little pond (an old washing up bowl and lots of stones), and planted some sun flowers. It was time for Tom the allotment man the man who can and long standing member for over 30 years,to come down with the rotavator!!

After a cup of tea and a local history lesson he got stuck in and made the allotment a lovely blank canvas.This is when you really start to see things take shape. Now we have to dig through taking out any roots he has loosened and he will turn it again.We are very lucky the soil is rich and soft and begging for plants.