A day at the Lottie

It was hardly a day but it was a good few hours. I had to do the trailer runs as usual but a picked Saturday to do it as we were to go up the Manchester in the afternoon to celebrate the mother-in-laws birthday. A gentleman never reveals a ladies age so lets just say it a significant birthday with a nought after the number. We would not be back until late Sunday.

Degsy started on the key as usual. The trailer was duly collected and run down to the lottie. DaveP wanted a load and since I have it coming out my ears I figured I could spare a load or two. Dave and his son Haz unloaded the trailer whilst I screwed in the missing eye-bolts for the vine wines. , I was particularly pleased with myself since I had the presence of mind to mark and pilot hole the posts when I fitted the eyebolts a few weeks ago. When the eyebolts were in I had to untangle the birds nest of wire that would be lead through the eye-bolts to make the vine training wires. After some wrestling the wire was stretched out and secured to the fence at one end and to the tensioner at the other end. Dave P and Steve came over to see what was going on and discus the finer points of the modified Guyot system. Guyot is the name the vine training scheme I have adopted.

I decided that I would have a go at putting in a plank to create the path border on the right hand side of the lottie. I had set out the markers several months ago so all I had to do was tie a string to the marker to give the guide for the top edge of the border. The soil was moist despite all the rain and melt snow. It only took thirty minutes or so to edge the plot, position the plank, hammer in four pegs and screw the plank to the post. Then it was just a case of levelling off the "path". I am thinking how I will mettle the path. I have to consider weed management from the next door plot. I just did the one plank but I could have done all of bed "D" if I had had a little more time. I have over estimated the number of scaffold planks I will need so I will lots left over to play with.