Making Slow Headway

View from the potting shed of plot 1. 

Another cold visit to the allotment to work on the de-bindweeding of the last Red Raspberry Bed. Removal of Raspberry canes that came up in the Adjacent Asparagus bed last year.

Cleaning up of the surrounding paths, including the removal of the very rotted down wood chip path leaving the underlying weed membrane exposed ready to refill with path quality wood chip, that I have found at the bottom of the pile in the car park.

Wide Asparagus bed to the left, last Red Raspberry bed on the middle and the last mulched raspberry bed on the right.
Started to remove the weathered and rotted woodchip between the two raspberry beds

View looking down the plot at the Asparagus bed that needs the woodchip margin to the path slabs weeding and woodchip removing and relaying.

Raspberry canes stacked on the Rhubarb bed that need to be cut up at some stage when I start clearing the bindweed roots to the left paths and around the Rhubarb.

Green Tug fill of bindweed roots, Blue Tug filled with cut Raspberry canes. Weed Membrane as good as the day it was laid some four years ago.

Weed membrane makes removing the old weathered and rotted woodchip easy to lift and place in the Square Flower Bucket, ready to be added to a bed or go into a composting Dalek as browns. There are those that advocate magic cardboard but I have proved that is gone after a year and contributes little in the way of assistance in holding back weeds after that year. 

Started to clear of rotted woodchip off the weed membrane, one can see how the bindweed has traveled in the woodchip paths above the membrane.

It looks like the slabs along the ends of the Raspberry beds need lifting, the existing woodchip weeding and removing and new woodchip placed under the slabs.

Lots of worms found in the woodchip path, and my robin took advantage of what I was doing