Started on the new (extremely unloved and overgrown) allotment
Sat 08:00, get petrol strimmer
08:20 - go mental, as discover bricks, glass, plastic, netting, wire, buliding site fence holders - massive picking up/moving session
09:20 - start strimming, rake, discover lots more bricks, more strimming, raking, discover more bricks and paving slabs, more strimming
11:47 - finished, return strimmer best £14.97 I've spent for a long time
Sun 08:00 first dump trip - Berlingo totally full
08:30 - lots more raking, digging up platic, mesh, bricks, slabs, catalogues, hedge trimming - bagging it all up
11:00 site cleared, now vaguely level
lay weed membrane
another totally full berlingo to dump
need more weed mesh to cover and need to start looking for manure - perversley satisfactory
The strawberries have gone mad. I've probably picked a small punnets worth every evening.
Does anyone know why my cucumbers are prickly? (still taste delicious though).
Some varities just are hairy/prickly Bunnyhop. Sugar snaps cropping like mad here, artichoke on the way, climbing French beans are still a disappointment but runners are ok. Parsnips seem to have failed (last years seed packet) and carrots are variable
Slowly getting there on the Garden front:
18 months ago
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Now-ish (a few more shrubs and roses in the beds since this photo):
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Was supposed to be finishing it this WE with new turf for the lawn, but my skip was cancelled by the council, so I've no where to dump soil when levelling it all off....