Broad beans Black!

I also noticed a few of my Broad Beans have turned Black! Looked on a few web sites and asked on GYO and it seems they may have been affected by the frost, hopefully they should be fine now

Very Wet!

We both went to the allotment today, have not been for a long time. We decided to put some guttering up on the shed to help rain water into the Water Butt and put some concrete slabs to make a pathway to the shed. Weather looked OK but the minute steve had placed the last item onto the guttering it started to rain and heavy! We still had to put the concreate slabs down which we got from Freecycle.

We managed to get the slabs down but we was both very wet. Hopefully the Water Butt will get loads of water today.

We decided to drive to the local farm shop and the rain got worse, when we returned home the roads where beginningto flood and the car was getting heavily splashed from the other side of the road.

Bench and Waterbutt

We managed to get a Bench and a water butt from freecycle. We where only picking up a bench from the person who responded to my advert for a bench but she also offered us a waterbutt when we arrived to pick up the item. She is leaving the country to live with her daughter so she is trying to get rid of loads of items. She didnt have to ask us twice!!! We drove off very happy people. The items now look very nice on the allotment. The only item we had to buy was a tap for the Water butt, which we have now fitted.

Also had to fix the shed window, the wind seemed to have smashed the plastic window and we had a nice big hole in the shed! all fixed now :-)



Picture of the Bench, Waterbutt and Steve with the new piece of plastic for the shed

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 a Shed!

As of Saturday Afternoon we have a shed on the allotment. woohoo!

This Shed is from out back garden, its a very old shed but its perfect for an allotment. We bought a new shed for the house. We thought it was silly having a old shed at home and a new one on the allotment. We had great fun getting down to the allotment in the car but we managed it. Luckily the Allotement is about a 5 minutes drive away from the house.

I then spent Sunday painting the shed to give it a bit of life! We had some old fence/shed paint left in one of the sheds when we moved into the house from the previous owner so it seemed just the job!

We haven't bothered to lock it as we been told if its not locked vandals will have a look inside, see nothing worth nicking and leave the shed alone ( hopefully)

Here is the shed

Warman's go to Theatre

One of my friends at work is part of a Theatre group which he does in his spare time. We was both off from work and decided to go along on Friday night, this would be there second night's performance. The group isThe Marlow Players and the play was 'Kindly leave the stage'.

The Play was going very well, but then it seemed the actors had lost the words and repeating themselves, I did start to worry BUT it was all part of the play!! It wasvery good and we have both decided we would go and see more plays. I think it takes a lot of guts to get up on stage and act in front of a lot of people and some of the audience are friends and family.

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.