Allotment beds. Top one has shallots already planted. Next one is for onions and leeks
Looking up, towards Ward Street. Not as pretty as the Hangingwater Allotment, but much easier to dig. Soil nice and friable. Weeds not quite so high. Plus The Builder has a magnificent brush cutter!
The Builder has marked out the proposed new beds with string . We can more or less see what we are doing
First raised bed, in place and ready for digging. (Update - it is now dug and ready for planting!)
Soft fruit beds.PLAN (as at March 4th)
The Builder has been busy. He's built a first raised bed and now dug it so that it is ready to receive the broad bean seeds, I hope later this week. He's also pegged out the next few beds and shifted the fridge out the way. Then he found even more rubble than we had expected and has moved most of that. The second plot is now ready for preparation. He was hoping to start the frame for it today, depending on the weather. He's extended the raspberry bed up towards the fence line and has planted some extra canes that Martin on the Sheffield Allotments gave us.
Last weekend he also started digging the little bed for the grapevines, which I bought at Dunston Hall on Sunday (one red, one white). This was complicated when we found what looks like a concrete sacrificial altar stone buried under the soil! Despite his best efforts he has so far been unable to get it out. We may need to work around it if all else fails!
The Builder now reports that he has three more frames ready to go
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