Gathering Woodchips & Bed H1

It was supposed to be 11C today, it only got to 9.5C it was chilly and overcast and the rain came about 12:30 I got to the allotment by 9:00am.

The compost heap has taken a bashing since I was last down, so I decided to fill as many 30L buckets with handles with the woodchip so that I have enough to fill the excavation of Bed H1.

Seven Oakland Gardens 30 Litre Buckets with Handles filled with woodchip and then barrowed in pairs into plot 1 and placed along a path

Steroids now reduced to 4mg a day as I'm being weened off them, but I'm attempting to be more active in order to build muscle before I'm off them and hopefully improve my stamina.

I'm still working on taking a rest/ water break as required and for as long as required before I have another bash.

2.4m Scaffold boards stacked on Beds 16 & 16A ready for De-Banding the ends.

Hopefully I'm getting a drone shot of the allotment shortly and then again in 3 months time so I can see the progress being made.

Square Flower Bucket filled with bits of branches and twigs from when the Ash tree was trimmed last year and not picked up by the tree surgeon.

A plot lot holder allowed the top soil delivery to be dropped in front of the woodchip pile. So no more woodchip can be ordered until they have removed the soil to their plot. Getting woodchips is always a hit and miss affair. 

They are not the most active of plot holders, and have said they will "Be slowly moving it in the coming days" and have also stated when pointing out it's location stops another load of woodchips from being delivered "Not to Worry, it won't be there for long"  We have no option but to wait and see, I suppose! 

I did suggest that they would have been better off placing it along the fence on the right of the car park, and drop off/ pick up area where it would not be an obstruction to the cars or for loads of Woodchip to be dropped. 

Nine 30L Pots with handles filled with woodchips. I do have some more of these pots with handles to take down to the allotment, and I will get more woodchips on my plot, especially as arranging a delivery of woodchips will be delayed. 

Two more 30L Pots with handles filled with topsoil from bed H1, before the rain stopped play. 

 H1 covered up when the rain started around 12:30 and I made my way home for lunch.