Working On The Raised Bed

A good long session on the allotment today. My robin came into the potting shed again to tell me he had run out of seed and to fill up his picnic table. I'm having to shut the door when not in there just encase he accidently get locked in there.

Clearance of weeds around beds. Extracting good soil from the next raised bed to be constructed, and filling the hole with cut branches and raspberry canes then a layer of well weathered woodchip.

He then flew into the potting shed and into the bench next to me and I said " OK I will fill up your picnic fable"

Which I did and he came and fed in front of me

I took the plastic trays off the raised bed and excavated the spoil heap around 5 buckets of soil

hen filled the hole with cut branches

Better view of the excavated hole. I ran out of flower buckets to fill up and it was about 3 hours in and I had basically had excavated all I could for the moment.

Added cut Raspberry canes on the top of the tree branches.

Then a barrow load of mulch quality woodchip went on top of the tree branches 

I will let the woodchip weather and wash into the gaps between the raspberry canes for a few days then cardboard the bottom and fill the bottom of the raised beds with rotting timber and more branches and woodchip, then make the second frame and fill with excavated soil and the risings from the four year old paths between the raspberry beds.