Raised Bed 15 Completed

I wasn't expecting the heavy frost and ice on the roofs, pavement, road and the car this morning when I woke up.

So a late trip to the allotment, after the sun had melted the ice off the car to unload the timber and stack it then I built the next raised bed frame It's an art learning to get these raised bed frames assembled on your own, when you don't have the strength in your hands and arms you once did, and arthritis in all your joints. It takes time and planning but is very satisfying once you have managed it. 

After assembling a U shape, I laid it down and put the last side in place insitu, then filled it up with another wheel barrow load of woodchip so the woodchip was about an inch over the butt joint of the two frames.

Tack screwed top frame to bottom frame and then emptied the flower buckets of soil excavated from the footprint of the beds and the path in between. Topped off with two bucket loads of coir and compost that I grew spuds in last year.

Empty Square Flower Buckets and Spud Buckets placed in bed 16 to dry out in the sun. If it rains it will wash down the wet soil into the bottom of the buckets, and I can tip the rain water and soil into the now completed bed 15.

I placed some hoops on the bed before coming home just to put the fox off from climbing onto it and digging for worms, I will net it next visit.