THE painterly PLOT
When Sue Ling took on her allotment in Kidlington, near Oxford, in 2019, she faced a tangle of weeds and tarpaulin. The solution? Good old, honest hard graft and determination -and some very early mornings!
Sue explains: “My husband David and I started digging at around 6.30 every morning. We were usually first on site and it was absolutely brilliant – so peaceful, with all the birds flying about. We started digging on one side, tackling one section before moving on to the next. Within a week we’d dug about half of the front area of the allotment.”
Much of the soil was moved into other beds to help even areas out, with a lot of diligent sieving to remove the worst of the stones. That’s certainly commitment!
Mare’s tail covered a lot of the plot and despite the painstaking work that was involved in digging it up, and its occasional
