Slow Progress

 

This afternoons earlier allotment visit at 2pm as its the new 3pm and it's going to start getting dark at 4pm rather than 5pm, started with finding the bed next to the hot bin had been got at by the foxes overnight, there were paw prints and evidence of digging. They do like to dig in a freshly cleared plot of ground. This was upstream of the Fox Ultrasonic Deterrent device I installed on Sunday, so it looks like I may need another couple to cover the other access points from the path between plot 1&1A and 2&2A.

120 litres of humus soil removed and decanted into 2 no 30 litre square flower buckets and 2 x 30 litre pots with handles

I need to find more buckets and containers to decant the humus into. The missing paving slab was rescued and re purposed for the foundation to the potting shed in 2023. I now have 450x450mm paving slabs and can remove the woodchip and install a paving slab in that path again.

Better view of the excavated soil. It's difficult for me doing the digging and takes me more time, and exhaust me faster than in 2023 before I became ill, but in terms of 2024, I would not be able to do this at all. I could not even get into my potting shed as the threshold was too high for me to step into and out of, and I had to relay the paving slabs in front and add a roof joist on flat as a step. 

View up towards plot 1A. I need to work my way back down the path and level off the three paving slabs from the green tug as they slope to the right and are not a smooth transition from plot 1 to plot 1A which has always been higher in level.

View up towards plot 1A last load of woodchip laid for the day. More needed for the path from the leaf bin up to the Dalek at the end of the path which will ultimately go in the excavated bed. As can be see the slab(s) to the bottom of the photo need lifting and packing for stability and a smooth transition from plot 1 to plot 1A 

View down the allotment towards plot 1. Slow progress, but progress non the less!