Vinny's Allotment Plot

    First plan today was to get my greenhouse bench cleared of stuff and add it to cold frame. 

Next job was to move wooden sided bed back onto area of previously rotten bed. I had to lever up as the four corners had a post set into ground. Once shifted i used the back of the shovel to bash the four corners down. I smashed the shovel, so now I have a hand shove and a dibber!  This bed is a true no-dig bed as I covered soil with cardboard and then used 1.5 bags of Aldi's peat free potting compost to cover cardboard. Because the bed is bigger it should accomodate some of the cucurbit family.

   

The plot is starting to look a bit like a woodyard as I have been chainsawing next doors fence for firewood. The area to the front of the woodpile is where the newly moved bed was previously sited.
   

Bagged up some of the wood and will take it home four bags at a time.

   


No, this is not the start of a Hugelkulture bed, its just the remains of the wood once I had bagged some up. The idea is to carry on with 2 foot beds/14 inch paths and the 'moved' bed has been sited accordingly and the position pegs hammered in.

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Last but not least is the other knackered bed which needs to come out and be replaced by the one in front. All cardboard in it will be moved to the new position.