Japanese Knotweed Plot Cleared

I was about to close the timber gates to the allotment when I arrived today and two idverde wagons turned up to clear the overgrown plot that has been treated for Japanese Knotweed this year.  

Once again a plot holder who lives in the block of flats behind the allotment has left his car on the allotments drop off and pick up area. He was nowhere to be seen on the plot, and thus should not have left his car on the allotment, and I suspect it's likely to have been there overnight.  

I informed this individual that he should not be doing this a couple of weeks ago when idverde came to do some rubbish clearance that the council appointed contractor never completed. I pointed out to him that if his car got damaged he would not be covered and that there was no over night parking. 

I also warned him that, if the council needed his car moved to complete their works and he was not available to move the car out of the way they would be within their right to have it towed away, and he would have to pay for its recovery. 

It appears some people never learn.  

The Hawthorne has been hacked back and the corner of plot 9 has been exposed and it would appear that the resident who lives behind that allotment has decided its a good place to dump all the plastic toys his children have outgrown 

Also the mesh fencing has been taken down that was behind the Hawthorn that was completing the security fencing to the allotment.

I have taken the decision to cut back all the spring raspberries because there is so much bindweed in the bed that has circled around and around and smothered the raspberries this year. The canes will not be going to waste or being burnt this year they are being cut up to provide filling materials for the bottom of the new raised beds.