Shabby clothes

Dresscode for an allotment is old, shabby clothes (that won't be a problem!), hat, gardening gloves and solid wellies. Essential tools: Felcro prunes (if you can afford them), spade, shovel, fork, hoe, hula hoe, three-pronged cultivator, stakes, string, spray bottle and a 'borrowed' shopping basket for easy transport. 

And very importantly get labels and a record book. If I'm to be anyway successful, this is vital for my sanity (to remember what I planted three months down the line and when I did it) and for the the survival rate of my veg.