Filling Raised Bed 16A

As the weather forecast last night today has been dry, not massively warm only 7C outside on the plot, and once again I was up early enough to get to the allotment for 9am and I worked at filling the top framework of raised bed 16A

The photographs show what I filled the raise bed with, and again I took a 10 minute break every hour and came away from the allotment around 1pm.

First a layer of Magic Cardboard to delineate between the branches and woodchips that I filled the bottom layer with yesterday and what I'm filling the top section with today. I had a tug full of rainwater and poured it over the cardboard. 

Next was a layer of leaves from my Leaf Bin

Leaves from the leaf Bin

A sprinkle of dried coffee grounds from Starbucks that my sister collects for me.

Ground Coffee beans added

Carrot Foliage from the Snowmen carrots that were harvested last week

Carrot Foliage spread over the bed, I don't have a lot of greens to add because of the time of year. Later in the year I would add grass clippings. 

Square Flower Bucket of spent compost and loo rolls added, from last years failures to grow. 

Two square flower buckets of soil decanted and weeded of mares tail roots that were missed when the buckets were filled, and weed that have grown since.

The Oakland Gardens 30L Pots with handles were emptied of the humus that was excavated from the footprint of the raised bed, and again the soil was combed through to remove any mares tail roots

Raised Bed 16A topped up to approx. 10mm off the top of the scaffold board framework

Then a dusting of spent coffee grounds to put the slugs and snails off from making the raised bed their home.

I didn't have time to sort out hoops and debris netting and I still need to make additional raised bed frames up, so to keep the foxes off the raised beds and digging my work out (as they have done previously) 

I've covered Bed 16A with 3 scaffold boards and the upside down garden tray.

Pet Scan tomorrow at St Georges Hospital and possibly seeing little man Thursday, as the weather forecast is snow and heavy rain in Surrey, so the allotment will have to do without me for a couple of days.

Those 3 scaffold boards stacked on Bed 16 need the bands removed from the ends.