Current mood:

sore

My achey brakey back......
Today I took the majority of the *donated* wood up to the lottie to make an attempt to construct some raised beds. So toolkit at the ready I heaved the wood out of the car and put on my 'chippy' hat!

Can't say that the raised beds are anywhere near perfect, infact they are a wee bit wonky - probably due to the unlevel ground, but they are beds and they are raised! I only had enough wood for 2 beds initially, but I'm sure the building work will leave us with some more wood to use eventually. This year I will probably do a mixture of both raised and flat beds until I have collected enough wood for some more beds.

Amazingly I managed to do some other jobs - I have moved changed the position of the squash heap to the bottom left hand corner of the lottie this year, as this is where the new manure was dumped!! There was so much of it that I really couldn't face the prospect of moving it all!! The 'old' squash heap has been flattened and I have taken out another barrow full of couch grass roots to burn - I hate couch grass with a passion! Just as you think you've got rid of it all, lo and behold it pops up again in the Spring.

Another major job is raking the straw up - who's idea was it to spread horse poo over the entire plot, only for it all to mulch down and be left with piles of straw!! Most of it has been collected up and put in the bottom of the biggest raised bed and the rest has been put back on the heap!There is still a lot of raking to do before I can think about planting!

The cabbage and brussels have all germinated now so I really *must* crack on with the lottie as those seedlings are ahead of the game!!

Note to myself - REMEMBER THE BLEEDIN' CAMERA NEXT TIME!!