What we have built

Well we have been very busy building on the allotment, all of the beds now have borders see picture below

Steve also noticed the Cabbage and broccoli need a bit more room, as they seem to coming through the chicken wire we had placed there earlier. We bought some garden netting and used a few bamboo sticks to make a tent to cover the Veg and give them plenty of room to grow.

We now just need to plan the other beds and make the paths for easy access.

We have borders

We collected about 8 pallets on Friday so we had plenty of wood to make our borders. We done one border on Friday but we decided to finish them on Saturday as we need to cut some woodern pegs to keep the wood in the ground. We have an electric saw so it was easier to take the wood home and make the pegs at home with the electronic saw.

Looking at the weather this morning (heavy rain and thunder and lighting) we thought we would not make it to the allotment today BUT luckily the rain stopped, Steve cut the pegs and off we went to the allotment. Allotment was empty when we arrived but a few people turned up while we where there. I would actually describe it like the boots advert for sun cream when poeple rush out for a bit of sun and it doesn't last that long. It rains but the minute it stops everyone runs to the allootment to do a bit of work but due to the lack of light, it doesnt last long!

We managed to do all the borders which was good. Allotment looks a lot better now. We now need to plan future beds with the rest of the wood we have. Also we need to build a composter and leaf mulch composter.

Collecting pallets

We collected a few pallets from someone down the road. Put an advert on a web site called freecycle - excellent web site to get free stuff. The idea is to help recycle stuff and saves people travelling to the tip or throwing stuff away that people can use. We can highly recommend it BUT it not all about taking, you need to also offer items aswell.

The pallets are going to be used to put borders on our beds, it will help to make the plot look smarter and also keep soil of the paths.

We only managed to do one bed - the Strawberry bed but next week we will do more. Steve is bring some more tools to help with the cutting.

Next week we are collecting 12 from a local company so we will be very busy, luckily we now have roof bars on the car now, so that helps transporting the pallets to the allotment.

We are also going to use the pallets for making a composter. The wood used for pallets arfe very strong. Many people just throw them away or put them in there skips which take up loads of room. Dont forget, if you want to take one out of someone's skip you should ask first before you remove any items.

When we got home I decided to sort out my sunflowers in the front garden as the green bin is being collected tomorrow. I have kepted a few heads for the seeds to try and use them for growing sunflowers next year.

One of the sunflowers heads is Huge, the roots where huge and took ages to lift from the ground. One of my neighbours made a comment of, you've started the tree felling then!
I think my sunflowers have been a talking poing for the neighbours, the people I have spoken to all make comments on them, normally something like, you like sunflowers then!

Now I need to weed the front garden and plant a few plants to replace the sunflowers!