Tree Surgeon "Would You Like Some Woodchips?"

With all the rain and flooding caused by the mega-storm that has been dumping an Months worth of rain in a day over the weekend & Monday and knowing that Mill Green was flooded and two cars stranded on Sunday and still not moved Monday I have not been down to the allotment. John showed me photos of his plot that had 75mm - 100mm of water in places, he dug some drainage channels into the vacant Japanese's Knotweed plot to help spread the load.

My local tree surgeon rang to ask if we needed topping up with woodchip as he was working near to our allotment site and had a full lorry load. It had stopped raining and was bright so I went to the allotment mid afternoon to meet him there and open the gate and let him in to unload.

We were getting to the end of the good path quality woodchip pile, and whilst waiting for the tree surgeon to arrive I filled two wheel barrow loads and five square flower buckets worth of woodchip.

Then I set about laying new woodchips on one of the paths between beds up on plot 1A.

I'm really happy with how the potting shed is looking now the wood stain has dried. I'm just hoping for a few dry days above 10C so I can finish off the first coat to those areas I have not managed to paint yet.

The plot name and number sign has really weathered over the last 18 months, but when I painted the shed I made sure I gave the sign a good first coat especially on the end grain where the varnish used had weathered badly. I like the weathered patina look that the sign has around the edges and hopefully the V33 will maintain that look and not let the sign weather too much more.

The temporary panel under the sign needs replacing, but that will also allow access to paint around the window frame and flashings.