Getting Down To It
Finally, a break in the weather, and a chance to get some work done on the allotment. Unfortunately, following an accident during the week, resulting in a sprained wrist and damaged tendons, not much heavy work for me this week, bugger!!
So, decided to work on the old shed area, getting the new hosepipe installed, and ready for the waterbutt, which will be moved to the allotment next weekend. Have ran a pipe from the standpipe outside my fence, along the internal fence, down to the ground, up the side of my shed, along to my new hosepipe. I can then just throw the end over the fence, and connect to the standpipe as and when necessary.
The blue upturned thingy is to stand the waterbutt on, then I can put some drainpipe round the shed, with a downpipe into the top of the butt.
The little green poly house has been moved from my back yard to here. Using it to start seeds of in, as the frosts seem to have now gone.
Have started of some seeds in there, Gardeners Delight tomatoes, cherry tomatoes (can't remember the variety at the minute) and Jalepeno chilli's. These will be potted up into 4 inch pots, ready to be transplanted into the greenhouse in a few weeks time (hopefully).
The greenhouse should be finished next week. Only about 8 panes of glass left to go into it. Have fitted an automatic vent unit to the top vent, and the west side has the bubble wrap ready in place. Put a few bags of topsoil into the beds, and mixed it in with the organic compost that I put down the other week. Should make for a nice growing medium.
After that, I turned to the left hand side bed, and as you can see from the photo, it is quite overgrown.
This is a mixture of weeds, brambles, nettles and rubbish, so set to work. All the rubbish picked up and moved to behind the shed, ready for bagging up and being taken to the tip. I then took to the tall stuff with a spade, in the form of a scythe, seemed the best thing to do. Ten minutes later, no tall stuff. A visit to Wilko's this weekend for an incinerator will take care of the cut down stuff, and then it will be ready for raking over to remove the top growth, and then dig over.
So, with the top growth cut down, you can actually see from the other end of the plot. Hopefully by next week, I should have a fair bit of the ground turned over, ready to be marked out into raised beds.
incidentally, the brambles will be dug out as best as I can, and transplanted into troughs, to be grown at the back of the plot. The troughs should keep them under control, and I will put a mesh panel up behind them, and try to train them to grow up it. Can't beat apple and bramble pie.
P.
So, decided to work on the old shed area, getting the new hosepipe installed, and ready for the waterbutt, which will be moved to the allotment next weekend. Have ran a pipe from the standpipe outside my fence, along the internal fence, down to the ground, up the side of my shed, along to my new hosepipe. I can then just throw the end over the fence, and connect to the standpipe as and when necessary.
The blue upturned thingy is to stand the waterbutt on, then I can put some drainpipe round the shed, with a downpipe into the top of the butt.
The little green poly house has been moved from my back yard to here. Using it to start seeds of in, as the frosts seem to have now gone.
Have started of some seeds in there, Gardeners Delight tomatoes, cherry tomatoes (can't remember the variety at the minute) and Jalepeno chilli's. These will be potted up into 4 inch pots, ready to be transplanted into the greenhouse in a few weeks time (hopefully).
The greenhouse should be finished next week. Only about 8 panes of glass left to go into it. Have fitted an automatic vent unit to the top vent, and the west side has the bubble wrap ready in place. Put a few bags of topsoil into the beds, and mixed it in with the organic compost that I put down the other week. Should make for a nice growing medium.
After that, I turned to the left hand side bed, and as you can see from the photo, it is quite overgrown.
This is a mixture of weeds, brambles, nettles and rubbish, so set to work. All the rubbish picked up and moved to behind the shed, ready for bagging up and being taken to the tip. I then took to the tall stuff with a spade, in the form of a scythe, seemed the best thing to do. Ten minutes later, no tall stuff. A visit to Wilko's this weekend for an incinerator will take care of the cut down stuff, and then it will be ready for raking over to remove the top growth, and then dig over.So, with the top growth cut down, you can actually see from the other end of the plot. Hopefully by next week, I should have a fair bit of the ground turned over, ready to be marked out into raised beds.
incidentally, the brambles will be dug out as best as I can, and transplanted into troughs, to be grown at the back of the plot. The troughs should keep them under control, and I will put a mesh panel up behind them, and try to train them to grow up it. Can't beat apple and bramble pie.
P.
posted by Pinsrap at
12:17 PM
