Bed 16 Exposed

Another couple of hours on the allotment this afternoon, I swept the weeds and debris off the weed membrane and then took the weed membrane off bed 16 to expose the soil

0.9m wide scaffold board laid for visual reference of where the new raise beds will go and the possible need to tweak the location if I need to rebuild the half 0.6m beds to 0.9m

Digging and weeding at the end of the bed nearest the boundary path with plot 2. Soil bulking and breaking down as turned with the fork.

Lots of couch grass, mares tail and bindweed roots removed, thankfully no snail or slug eggs encountered so far.

View down the allotment looking where I've been working to improve the infrastructure the last three months.

Strips of heavy duty water proof tarps that I've had for the last twelve years, laid over the bed to help keep the bed dry-ish whilst I dig weed and excavate.

Small table placed over the black rubbish bag inside the square flower bucket that is half full with weeds and the debris that was removed today to prevent it filling with water should it rain.  

Next visit I will be excavating the soil to a spades depth and decanting it into the many flower & spud buckets I have then filling the hole in the ground with rotting timber, branches, raspberry canes and other materials I have been gathering with the woodchip back up the ground level then building the beds ready to also fill up with similar material half way and then return the decanted soil on top.