Bed 16A Decanting Humus III

 

A sunny day today and around 8C so an early lunch and a long afternoon on the allotment continuing with decanting the soil and back filling with woodchips from Bed 16A Raised bed on "Avalon" the name for my two half plots 1 and 1A at Mill Green allotment.

I could now get in the raised bed frame and start to decant the humus material

It was nice to see many more plot holders visiting today, during the wet weather it's only been the die-hards that visit all year round.

One knows which plot holder are likely to get a no-cult notice this year already, and funnily enough its the ones that did last year. That's not my problem I shall leave the no-cults to Jane, I'm only the site rep and not a policeman for the council.

A couple of 30 litre pots filled later I had a trench excavated and placed a decking board as a shutter to the trench and back filled it with woodchips and then capped it off with decking boards. 

A couple of 30 litre pots filled later I had a trench excavated and placed a decking board as a shutter to the trench and back filled it with woodchips and then capped it off with decking boards

Decking board shutter placed to hold back the woodchips from entering the lower area to be excavated next.

First barrow load of woodchip dumped levelled and compacted using a 115kg of me via my feet

Second barrowload of woodchips levelled and tamped with the rake and then again compacted by walking all over the area.

I started to decant the remaining humus, but I was quite frankly knackered, I had been taking small breaks to hydrate and catch my breath but with the time getting on, yes I finally remembered the battery for the clock on the shed, I decided enough was enough for the day. 

Rain and sleet forecast for tomorrow, so it's debateable if I wlll be able to continue tomorrow so I recovered the bed to keep the rain out until I have decanted the rest of the humus and back filled the whole of raised bed back to surrounding ground level.