We finally ticked a long term job off this weekend. We haven’t really made a lot of progress on the list of ‘things we must get done this winter’, for a variety of reasons but this week replaced the fence at one side of plot 97. Our plot neighbour had put up a fence of pallets when she got her plot, which did the job, but lots of weeds seemed to enjoy growing up the middle of the pallets which made it pretty hard to clear.
With the help of Bob we managed to take down the old fence, move a tons of bricks and stone, clear the weeds, hammer in the stakes and attach the rails. Not bad for a days work – all we have left to do to finish it (we could leave it like it is now, but it wouldn’t match the fence we so painstakingly built when we first got the plot, can’t have that!) is break up some pallet to create the vertical pickets and then paint on some preservative.
Whilst we were doing this we were accompanied by two very friendly little robins who seemed to enjoy eating the bugs and things we were turning over in the soil.
Elsewhere on the plot, things are slowly, very slowly coming back to life. We saw the first signs of growth on the blackberry bush and a couple of the snow drops are starting to flower. It’s still too cold to say it feels like spring, but you can sense its just around the corner.
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