20 & 21/04/2013
Katie, Dwayne & Angharad
The Saturday was a glorious day spent in the sunshine
(suncream is on the shopping list)
Firstly we began to complete the covering of the poly tunnels floor to suppress the weeds
Here are Katie and Angharad adding the woodchippings to complete the suppression,
it was uncomfortably warm in there, but at least we know that the tunnel will work well once its complete.
We had a wonderful surprise later in the day when Grahame Howard of Howard Handy Man Services, rang to say that he had finished making the beautiful raised beds he has produced for us free of charge!!
He sourced the timber from Travis Perkins in Llanishen, the beds are made from railway sleepers which Travis Perkins very kindly donated to Grahame so he could make us some, very much needed, raised beds for the poly tunnel. Fantastic!
Thank You very much for your generosity Grahame Howard & Travis Perkins, from everyone at FareShare.
Here are Grahame & Dwayne getting the rasied beds into the poly tunnel
http://www.howardhandymanservices.moonfruit.co.uk/
The rasied beds were rather large (and heavy) they measured 8ft by 4ft and we hauled them carefully into the tunnel, that was a lot of hard back breaking work.
Here they are
(they are bigger than my bed)
Other jobs we carried on with were the general maintenance of the plot, it was a bit windy during the week and blew the felt off the shed and broke a window, so we had a tidy up in the shed, fixed the roof and window. One of the jobs that is taking a while is the path edging, we allocated a lot of free wooden planks but due to their previous life we had a lot of nails to remove to make them usable.
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