Bed H1

Bed H1 with the weed membrane removed

Digging and turning the soil and exposing the bindweed and mares tail roots

I try to loosen the soil so that I can pull out as long a length of root as possible

The roots add up really quickly, in fairness the last time this bed was used was 2023 when I found out I had cancer and my treatment started and I could not get down to the allotment. 

Bending double to weed and digging out the soil makes me breathless quite quickly so I took a number of mini breaks and started to fill up two 30 Litre pots with handles

One can never really see the depth of excavation in these photographs

Bed H1 covered using two of the garden trays and a potting up tray as I want to keep the soil dry as its easier to dig, decant and weed.

As the garden tray has been used to cover H1, I added some scaffold boards to Bed 16A to keep the foxes off it.

Bed 14 & 14A covered with a tarp to try and keep it dry as its on the list to be worked on, either after H1 unless I decide to do Bed H2 next