The patch we don't talk about

We only managed to dig over a little over half of our allotment before the soil got a bit too dry and we ran out of digging steam. We left the other patch for a while before I finally thought to cover it in weed suppressant.

Hooo baby! Most of the green stuff died back really quickly and after a few weeks and it was easy to scrape it all off the surface. Ok, so the weed roots were left in the soil, but this was just supposed to be a quick and not-so-dirty way of still using the space and giving our backs a break. We then dug out the holes, put a nice bit dollop of well rotten horse manure in there and re-covered the soil with the weed suppressant. We cut a cross and planted some of the tomato and squash plants grown up indoors through the fabric .

I've been out since and the plants haven't died. I call that a success!