We had some bad allotment news during the week. Nic’s dad had a problem with his site and all of a sudden our source of unlimited timber had been shut down. Luckily we had a backup plan in the form of TRiM, which is a timber recycling place that takes in unwanted timber, denails it, cuts it down and sells it on. A quick visit there and we’d secured enough old scaffolding boards and corner posts to make the remaining six full size beds.
After the boards got delivered (by a man with a plait in his beard) we spent Sunday dodging rain showers, cold, food poisoning – dodged by me, but not Pilla unfortunately, and allotment meetings (ok ok, we didn’t dodge it, it was the Christmas show meeting – we’re signed up to make mince pies, cards, buy a few toys for the raffle and man some stalls, which could be interesting as it’s the day after my work Christmas do, not normally a day I get anything useful done!). We made a total of 3 new beds – not a bad return for a cold an rainy November day. We have 3 more left to create, plus a few little ones dotted around the plot.
You might be able to see the massive pile of soil is slowly giving way to proper beds. We are a little bit concerned about how many worms we’re going to have, so have been playing ‘count the worm’ when we’re shifting the soil.
We also got our first plants. Out allotment legend, Bob, gave us two redcurrent bushes and said we could have some strawberry shoots.
We also got some good news about our shed. The allotment society is going to refund the cost, so one visit to Tesco Direct and a shiny new 6’2″ x 4’2″ metal shed is on it’s way to us. We’ve applied for planning permission from the council, so it could be weeks (months?) before we can actually put it up, but still, having a shed is a cornerstone of any allotment as a place to stay dry and make tea, so once we get one our little car park should start looking a lot more allotment-like.
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