shed distractions

[smilingshoe]

Well I've got my allotment after five years wait, I've designed how I want the plot to be, what I'm going to grow, bought all the seeds, started some of my chillis, toms and aubergines, onions, leeks and garlic, I've dug 3/4 of the plot its taken 3 weeks so far, shifted around 4 tonne of couch grass roots, I've ordered 40 scaffolding planks and the search is on for a greenhouse. I managed to get a shed on saturday, real bargain for £30 . Now I just need to work out how to put it up, I think I know now but goodness knows how I'm supposed find the concrete blocks/ breeze blocks etc. Anyway fancied a day away from the plot today and wanted to be a bit creative. So decided to use the bits and bobs of coloured fence paints in the garage to jazz up the shed by painting the doors got a bit carried away !!!!!!! Given the look on the veteran allotment gentlemans faces when they saw I'd painted the shed navy blue, goodness knows what they are going to say !!!

[Jono]

I like that a lot!

[lottielady]

In my experience the old rules are there to be broken, newbies are the ones who will carry it forward for everyone, draw on the experience but do things how you think they should be done x

[Bren In Pots]

I like that and you'll have to post photos of the finished shed once you've got it on your lottie.

[smilingshoe]

Thanks all, I'm really enjoying the allotment so far, but just can't wait to get planting. I just thought that setting it up right from the start might help me in the long run, so I;ve spent alot of time trying to sort everything out. The veteran gents as I call them are legendary.... to start with when I first went up 4 of them would congregate at the plot opposite lean against the fence and just laugh at me, they wanted to know where my husband was ( I don;t have one i'm a single mum). After a week though of me going up and digging they stopped laughing and started nodding, then they started to tell me how well I was doing. They are great really, they think me and my plans are entirely mad, but thats ok, each to his own. I listen to all there advice and take it on board, but I'm not to be swayed from my plans, I've been waiting 5 years , a lot of thinking time. I love the banter really and I think the legendary gents do too !

Glad you like the doors. Will definitely post some pics when I have worked out how to erect the shed, well the base thing and found the posts and things that I think I might need

[Suky]

I love that door. Keep on doing things your way, they'll get used to it. I put the cat amongst the pigeons when I planned a path down the centre of my plot, 'we grow in rows here' I was told. Well, I accept I can't have proper raised beds but I am not going to dig my plot every year so don't want to walk on it all the time so it WILL be divided into beds I can reach without. So There!

PS. can you put your location?

[pauco]

Great looking door


paul.

[Snadger]

I had a similar idea for jazzing up an enviromesh covered carrot bed. Enviromesh isn't the prettiest of covers and I had in my minds eye a very similar design to yours!

Door looks good!

[lottieanne]

Cool doors ...... I got my plot 2 weeks ago and am crrently digging away.....I think the 'veterans' are enjoying the view of my butt from their vantage point :-)

[smilingshoe]

Yes Anne, I think my gents are getting a bit of an eye full too. Glad you all like my doors, how are you getting on Anne. I've just got the last 1/6 th to dig , but somehow I seem to have got slower and it seems never ending, Will go up first thing in the morning and do another 4-5 hours. It makes me so tired, but it's worth it.

Thanks to all who like the doors x

[lottieanne]

As I work full time and am studying its slow but not too bad. I only got the plot 2 weeks ago and have dug and weeded about a third of it. I have been digging for 12 hours and there is not a lot of weed it's a big plot. I am there for a good 4 hours at least tomorrow and weather permitting will be there next friday. I have just purchased a planting by the moon book as advised by a frech colleague cant wait to see what happens plant wise.

[smilingshoe]

I'm up for the moon planting, I have n't invested in a book but found this website

Guide to planting by the moon - The Gardeners Calendar

I keep checking and am only sowing what it tells me to on that day, I'm quite into the moon anyway and whether it works or not I like the idea. I've sown leeks, onions, calabrese, tomatoes, peppers and chillies. It's all very exciting, I love it

[Jono]

Cool doors ...... I got my plot 2 weeks ago and am crrently digging away.....I think the 'veterans' are enjoying the view of my butt from their vantage point :-)

Haha, one of my most memorable times on the plot was one morning when I was on my own in mid summer. I was working on a bed and one of the regular old boys started walking my way. 'Yes!' I thought, 'he's coming to talk veg to me, I've finally made it!'

I turned to greet him. 'Morning,' he said. Other half not about this week?'