August Bank Holiday all over with, disappointment with the weather coped with, and onto the last weekend of our holiday... last push for making a difference before we have to go back to work...
Saturday 1st September: despite the forecast for reasonable weather, it was windy, dull and not an inspiring day for creating stuff. But after a visit to the builders yard we returned with a car full of timber... and Sean was ready to start fencing...
First was the structure on the left of the picture above - 3 new and 2 uprights that we found in the allotment - linked with planks for stability (and to keep the soil on our plot and stop it sliding next door) ready for the wire & raspberry bushes. Hopefully the ones we rescued from the patch of weeds will survive into next year...
Next was the fence at the bottom of the plot - we seem to have lost several feet of our plot which had slid down to next door's garage. None of these plots seem to be straight or level - and ours is particularly wonky!!! So, here's Sean measuring the gaps and the planks...
At the end of Saturday... Structures built and waiting for another de-weeding before planting up the raspberries, and the gooseberry bushes we rescued. Sean's on his way home...
Last photo of the day as we leave... the fence is set deliberately at this interesting angle!!
Jobs for tomorrow - de-weeding and planting...
02.09.12:
Sunday 2nd September: sunshine and much better weather for inspired gardening...
Weeding, digging, planting, and watering done... and by the end of the day...
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| Raspberries planted, watered and cut back. |
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| All fruit and veg watered |
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| Weeded, leveled out and gooseberries planted. |
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| Left: pile of weeds; Right: Sean's retaining fence and gooseberries. |
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| The view of the allotment from the mound of weeds on our neighbour's plot. |
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| At last: time for Sean to sit down and survey his fabulous fences!!! |
