New Years Eve Visit

With the weather being mild before the storm today I had another longish session on the allotment. As usual the Last of the Summer Wine mob were all there (John, Wally and myself) we all arrived just after each other and 10ish we all left more or less together at 12:30.

I had my Ryobi circular saw with me and cut up the rotting timber from the bed frame I lifted to put in the two raised beds next to the asparagus bed. I used this timber to line the inside of the bottom frame of the current raised bed to act as sacrificial timber and hopefully give the new scaffolding board frame work a little more life.

he woodchip laid yesterday was pulled into the middle of the bed and the timbers inserted. The woodchip leveled and compacted with the rake.

I then covered the compacted woodchip with cardboard and two more barrow loads of woodchip added and leveled off.

Second Barrow load of woodchip to be added to the bed.

Levelled off and compacted with the rake as a pounder. Next Job to make the framework up for the next level to be added, and then the soil and compost filled in the second level

I found a layer of path worthy woodchip and started to fill the path to the last Raspberry bed. The ends have been left as I need to excavate and remove the bindweed roots before proceeding with laying new woodchip paths.

The path on the right needs to be excavated and weeded and then once more path worthy woodchip found in the pile or delivered replaced

My robin came and sat on the picnic table and was eating the seed and I was pouring the seed into it. He is getting so tame, the next step is to have him eat off my hand.