More Work On The Raspberry Beds

 

Another couple of hours on the allotment today finishing off the mulching of the third raspberry bed, and start to remove the last bed of canes. It's taking time, but its a job worth doing.

All visible bindweed removed a layer of coffee grounds sprinkled and two wheel barrow loads of mulch worthy woodchip added to the bed. I had to tip the wheel barrow sideways to fill the bed 

Photo after the second barrow load of wood chip tipped into the bed and before raking it level. more coffee grounds added the the top of the woodchip on the right half of the bed.

The state of play when I left to go home for lunch, I will let the levels of woodchip settle and consolidate with the rain we are due and top them up to the top again in the next couple of week.

The Spring Raspberry bed is going to be cut back completely as I need to get the bindweed roots out and the raspberries can recover.

I did find a pocket of dry good quality path worthy woodchip in the pile and removed that into buckets ready to do the paths in between the raspberry beds on a future visit.

It has to be said those thermal gloves I got off ebay are the dogs undercarriage they kept my hands so warm and toasty and were not overly expensive.