Doors, Floors and Seedlings!

Saturday & Sunday & Bank Holiday Monday

04 - 06th May 2013

Volunteers - Austin, Dwayne, Liz, Keris, Katie & Katie

The boys made a door very resourcefully from bits and bobs from around the allotment! The poly tunnel company has helpfully only given us enough wood to make half of one door - we need two! 

We had received another delivery of wood chippings - this time we went for 5 tonnes instead of 2. We are learning that this project is much bigger than we expected. We are using this to re-cover the paths now we have edged them.

 The woodchipping is also being used to cover the floor in the poly tunnel. Using the same principle as the paths outside, we laid mesh across the whole floor and then woodchipped over the mesh. We have run this throughout the poly tunnel including under the raised beds as we don't want weeds to grow through the plastic.

It was time to transport all the seedlings from my dining room into the poly tunnel. Austin is happy that we are finally getting our dining room table back, as I have been using it as a greenhouse for the last two months! 

We planted some more seedlings to start their lives in the poly tunnel. We have planted seedlings at four week intervals to ensure that we have a steady flow of growth & so we dont have a glut of one particular thing come harvest season. 

 It was all go this weekend, we had a new volunteer join us, also named Katie (easy to remember). She and I made this rather delightful bamboo structure to house the runner beans when they come through.

Keris and I then went along next to each stick, burrowed a hole, filled it with compost and a runner bean seed.