We have an allotment: a plot of land, we rent where we grow fruit and veg. It's always interesting to see how new plot holders set about the task. Probably some life lessons.

We always very quickly know
Who will stay and who will go.
You know if they will stay or not
By watching them prepare their plot.

You'll soon know they are motivated
Once the plot's been rotavated.
Will they rush to cultivation
Or concentrate on preparation?

Some think that once the ground looks clear
The weeds have gone; won't reappear.
They've been chopped up and spread around
The roots are there, they're underground.

And then of course there'll be the seeds
For each year's seeds there's seven years weeds.
If they're too quick to put things in
We know they'll soon be packing in.

The weeds come up they smother all
They won't be growing much at all.
The lesson is prepare your soil
You can't just watch, you have to toil.

Get down and dig; root those weeds out
It's darned hard work of that no doubt.
Break up, keep weeded, feed the soil;
From sheer hard work do not recoil.
Have to keep at it, stay on top
But that's the way to bumper crops.