I have a few results this week. My allotment neighbour gave me a bottle of wine and a dozen eggs from his chickens for the manure a dropped off last week. I also came across an old rotovator for pennies. Even if the thing only run long enough to do my garden and the community bit at the allotment it will have been cheaper than the Hire Charge for a weekend.
The days are getting longer which means more time to do "stuff". As the evenings get longer I get to spend more time in the back garden pottering. My back garden has been neglected over the winter as my time has been spent on the new front garden and the shed. "Shed" seems too small a word for this multi-purpose, mini building.
After doing family time on Saturday morning I was able to get stuck into boarding the outside of my shed. I got maybe 60% completed before it became to dark. Sunday dawn grey & misty. After a harty breakfast I went off to the allotment. It rained intermittantly but only lightly. It was as if the sky could not hold onto the the mist any more and rained ever so slightly for a couple of minutes and stopped. I managed to make a start on the final bed. Part of the bed contains the Sprouting Brocolli that the Pidgeons dig not get. The rest has been under black plastic for a year. I have been promising myself to get this section dug since before Christmas. The delivery last week of two tons of manure and the knowledge that the seed potatoes will soon be here has put a focus on the job. The north wind was bitter and made worst by the light rain. The Brocolli, which stand about three feet high, was between me and the wind which provided shelter and made it feel quite warm, well, less cold.
Once the shed is finished I will have a couple of weeks to get everything ready at the lotty before the next job on the house starts.
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