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Last Tuesday a Ton of fresh organic top soil arrived from my friends at Dandies Soil, I was out so it was delivered into the parking space in the front of the house, 2 weeks of rain meant it was going nowhere fast. Finally on Sunday me and Matt managed to get it into the Van, and took it to the allotment. Plan A was to wheel barrow the 40 X 25 Kilo bags over the field. That proved far too taxing and we switched to plan B : Throw them over the fence.
My arms are feeling it today, but it must have saved us 2 hours. The Ton I orders (the amount chosen by the fact it sounds like a lot) managed to fill 2 of the raised beds. Still need to figure out how to fill the other 2. Needless to say I don’t plan on repeating the soil journey.

We also planted an Apple tree and some blackberries, whilst digging the whole for these and clearing some more bramble weeds, we found a marvelous array of goodies, including a Bra and Syringe and a Shoe, that must have been one wild night!

March 8th, 2010 | Category: Phil's Allotment | Leave a comment

Last Saturday, armed with a Petrol Driven Generator, A Circular Saw, 20 Large planks of wood, 2 electric drills and 4 friends, project allotment got underway.

An early trip to B&Q to get the wood was followed by a cheeky stop at Greggs to get the pies and on to the allotment we went, the wood awesomely fitted through the fence, everything else went over, and only the heavy generator had to be walked around to long way.

step 1 : cleared earth of any large brambles still lurking under the soil, flattened the parameter and then laid out the agricultural cloth.

Step 2: Layout the wood in the initial shape, and hammer in the corner posts.

Step 3: attempt to screw the side panels to the post. Fail. then drive quickly to Wickes and get some nails after following the advice of Kasper the Estonian shoemaker.

Step 4 : Watch the aforementioned Shoemaker hammer 4 inch nails in 3 taps, He is now on nail 10 whilst i’m just finishing my first.

Step 5: complete the whole bed, and repeat 4 times

Step 6 : go to pub for much needed beer.

Great work Team! I now have a tonne of earth sitting outside my house, after it was delivered on Tuesday, looks like a little job for this weekend

February 25th, 2010 | Category: Phil's Allotment | Leave a comment

I was looking around for some info on how to best build a raised vegetable bed, and a quick search on You tube turned up these videos.

This one has the be the most perfect raised bed allotment in the world.

When it comes to constructing a raised bed, this video was the most instructive when looking at what you need to consider.

This will be the guide for the lads when it comes to make them. Bring it on

January 26th, 2010 | Category: Phil's Allotment | Leave a comment