Plot 53

Are you just creating a garden or are you looking for a companion plant nursery? Planting flowers and herbs which are beneficial to your main allotments seems practical, a wild border full of plants that attract insects like hoverflies, lacewings and ladybirds might help you with common allotment beasties about 3ft wide with a wind break hedge that could be edibles, like cobnut, elder, intertwined with something like a tayberry which Is thornless but adds density.

I’m planning on underplanting my one Apple next year with leeks as they are supposed to deter aphids which has been an issue for this Apple but not my others.

You could plant some veg with the intention of letting them go to seed, that way you could be seed sufficient. Some can be quite magnificent when they go to seed. I envy you having sufficient space that you could grow things which don’t have to be for the table. I’d love a transitional space.