And we go on, part 2 of my blog and i thought I'd update you with all the work we have done. Thankfully, after a few days of heavy rain, we managed to get a dry spell so we could get back on track.
We decided to use a weed killer to get rid of the weed on the allotment, and did some research and found Weedol was the best and safest weed killer around
It was a pretty effective weed killer, within days you could see the change in the colour of the weeds, we would recommend it, if your looking for some for your plot. So with the weed killer set to work the next plan is to get the shed up, we marked out the area at the back of the plot to put the shed up and started to dig out the area, fortunately it wasn't to cluttered, which was good as it only needed digging and flattening. with the help of some communion gravel, and some of the larger stones, it was quickly prepared.
The shed arrives on Saturday afternoon, so hopefully it will be up and full of our stuff by the end of the weekend. I've (Scott) been spending my time digging up tree stumps, now i don't know if anyone out there has good experience of this but they're right awkward little buggers. Three and a half hours to get one out on Thursday, i dug, i sawed, i didn't conker. eventually after digging deep all around it and making sure i got all the soil from between the roots, i managed to saw it in half, its only then i got any good movement from it and eventually managed to lift it from the ground in two pieces, anyone know how this can be done easier without help of mechanical aids, I'd greatly appreciate the advice.
Liz is the brains behind the organisation, its really her passion that's got this off the ground and she's way ahead of me in terms of knowing what she's doing, she's planned where the beds and paths will be, what needs doing to get them there and what we will be growing. She's been doing everything, last weekend she did so much work, clearing, setting out paths, completing shed space, motivating the kids to help etc, whilst i did nowt as i was struggling with a cold. Its beginning to look like a working piece of land now, rather than the dumping ground it was.
Although looking at this picture you might disagree with my last statement, so what next, well hopefully we will get a full weekend on the plot, when your both working full time, its hard to get up there, but I'll hopefully do some more digging on Friday whilst we will continue clearing over the weekend hoping we will be ready to rotovate the whole plot in late October.
As you can tell I'm no Alan Titchmarch from the lack of technical knowledge in this blog, its gonna have to be in layman terms, as I'm totally new to this and Liz is the boss. Anyhow i will bore you no longer, if you've read this and over 200 read part 1, so someone is, thank you, all advice welcome, cheers.
We decided to use a weed killer to get rid of the weed on the allotment, and did some research and found Weedol was the best and safest weed killer around
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| Weedol available in all good gardening shops and some bad ones too |
It was a pretty effective weed killer, within days you could see the change in the colour of the weeds, we would recommend it, if your looking for some for your plot. So with the weed killer set to work the next plan is to get the shed up, we marked out the area at the back of the plot to put the shed up and started to dig out the area, fortunately it wasn't to cluttered, which was good as it only needed digging and flattening. with the help of some communion gravel, and some of the larger stones, it was quickly prepared.
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| Space for the Shed |
The shed arrives on Saturday afternoon, so hopefully it will be up and full of our stuff by the end of the weekend. I've (Scott) been spending my time digging up tree stumps, now i don't know if anyone out there has good experience of this but they're right awkward little buggers. Three and a half hours to get one out on Thursday, i dug, i sawed, i didn't conker. eventually after digging deep all around it and making sure i got all the soil from between the roots, i managed to saw it in half, its only then i got any good movement from it and eventually managed to lift it from the ground in two pieces, anyone know how this can be done easier without help of mechanical aids, I'd greatly appreciate the advice.
Liz is the brains behind the organisation, its really her passion that's got this off the ground and she's way ahead of me in terms of knowing what she's doing, she's planned where the beds and paths will be, what needs doing to get them there and what we will be growing. She's been doing everything, last weekend she did so much work, clearing, setting out paths, completing shed space, motivating the kids to help etc, whilst i did nowt as i was struggling with a cold. Its beginning to look like a working piece of land now, rather than the dumping ground it was.
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| Have we done any work |
Although looking at this picture you might disagree with my last statement, so what next, well hopefully we will get a full weekend on the plot, when your both working full time, its hard to get up there, but I'll hopefully do some more digging on Friday whilst we will continue clearing over the weekend hoping we will be ready to rotovate the whole plot in late October.
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| i dream of being able to wear jackets like that |
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