Plot B2: Complete (for now…)
Apart from a few very welcome interruptions by visitors here and a party there, the daylight hours have been spent continuing the garden plot building. Except for an extra interruption when the sieve of legend finally called “time” about 4 barrow loads from full and started joining up a few little holes into bigger holes, kinda defeating the purpose of the sieve. It had also developed quite an impressive bow.
A reasonably quick re-string later and we were back in business, and we were back to grass level again. But the sieve’s just not the same. The first stringing had just got a nice flex and feel to it, honest. It was just better!
It was only slightly disheartening to watch the top of the plot turn from nice soil to small stones when we gave it a good watering in. I’m sure we’ll re-sieve it sometime with a slightly tighter mesh now we’ve done all the hard work. But that can wait!
As can plot B3. At least until we’ve got some more compost to drop in there. We can’t dig out all the soil that’s in the plot until we’re ready to fill it again in case the sides fall in while it’s empty. At least that’s sounding a pretty damn good excuse to me! And I think we’ve got deck to do before we’ll get on to that. I think. Hopefully! I’ll let you know…
I’ve been digging through the seeds seeing if there’s anything that we can plant, and it looks like some carrots and raddish seeds might be worth a nudge. Stay tuned!