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Called at the plot after my morning workout. Watered what needed watering. I know that rain is forecast for this evening or tomorrow so a priority was for rain capture off the greenhouse roof. I had a storage butt on the corner of the greenhouse but it toppled slightly and broke a pane of glass. Seeing as it's nearly empty I managed to move it away from the glass and added a large pot with a grapevine in it to the place it had occupied. The idea is that the grapevine can grow up through the chunk of glass missing that was broken by the water butt.
The watr butt is now 2 feet away from where it was so needed to be plumbed to the gutter outlet from the greenhouse roof. As a 'Heath Robinson' makeshift measure, and using what I had, I wedged a lump of plastic guttering to the greenhouse outlet and have it directed towards the water butt. Next time I am at the plot I will take my roll of 'Gaffer tape' with me and secure it so the wind doesn't dislodge it. Not the pretttiiest of solutions, but it should funnel the rainwater where it needs to go.
My next door neighbour has strimmed the outside of their fence and my exterior fenceline looked shabby. I spent a short time on my hands and knees pulling the weeds out of mine to tidy it up a bit. A human strimmer so to speak!
I did a bit of hand weeding on the plot itself, had a bit natter with a friend, pulled up some seeded onions, loaded some more stones into the skip and then scranned a few ripe strawberries before leaving for home.
The watr butt is now 2 feet away from where it was so needed to be plumbed to the gutter outlet from the greenhouse roof. As a 'Heath Robinson' makeshift measure, and using what I had, I wedged a lump of plastic guttering to the greenhouse outlet and have it directed towards the water butt. Next time I am at the plot I will take my roll of 'Gaffer tape' with me and secure it so the wind doesn't dislodge it. Not the pretttiiest of solutions, but it should funnel the rainwater where it needs to go.
My next door neighbour has strimmed the outside of their fence and my exterior fenceline looked shabby. I spent a short time on my hands and knees pulling the weeds out of mine to tidy it up a bit. A human strimmer so to speak!
I did a bit of hand weeding on the plot itself, had a bit natter with a friend, pulled up some seeded onions, loaded some more stones into the skip and then scranned a few ripe strawberries before leaving for home.
"The problem with retirement is that you never get a day off"- Abe Lemons