Today went pretty well!
We got a bunch of big things delivered recently, and smaller things that the delivery companies decided to send in massive packages (thank you, Habitat, for sending our new set of crockery packaged is such a way that it arrived in a box large enough to to fit an armchair in!). So as a result, we have a huge amount of cardboard in big pieces, which I took down the allotment.
The newspaper layer unfortunately got blown about a bit at the corners although it stayed in place due to the boards I laid over it, but the result was frozen solid lumps of newspaper that still left big gaps everywhere, so the cardboard we have went over all that.
Got confirmation the straw bales will be coming on Tuesday, so I'm going to ask work to let me possibly work from home that day so I can take them straight up once they arrive.
Picked up 2 more bags of our fortnightly complimentary horse-poop-and-used-bedding, bringing our total to 6. 4 of those and the entire last month's worth of heaped weeds and cuttings completely filled the plastic compost bin, so the 2 new ones are stacked by the shed.
Got some more of the grass cut with my shears, and pulled up a few more of the boards around the beds.
Made another allotment friend, chatting to them with the allotment manager, and this new friend keeps a no-dig plot so will be very helpful with advice and such I hope!
We got a bunch of big things delivered recently, and smaller things that the delivery companies decided to send in massive packages (thank you, Habitat, for sending our new set of crockery packaged is such a way that it arrived in a box large enough to to fit an armchair in!). So as a result, we have a huge amount of cardboard in big pieces, which I took down the allotment.
The newspaper layer unfortunately got blown about a bit at the corners although it stayed in place due to the boards I laid over it, but the result was frozen solid lumps of newspaper that still left big gaps everywhere, so the cardboard we have went over all that.
Got confirmation the straw bales will be coming on Tuesday, so I'm going to ask work to let me possibly work from home that day so I can take them straight up once they arrive.
Picked up 2 more bags of our fortnightly complimentary horse-poop-and-used-bedding, bringing our total to 6. 4 of those and the entire last month's worth of heaped weeds and cuttings completely filled the plastic compost bin, so the 2 new ones are stacked by the shed.
Got some more of the grass cut with my shears, and pulled up a few more of the boards around the beds.
Made another allotment friend, chatting to them with the allotment manager, and this new friend keeps a no-dig plot so will be very helpful with advice and such I hope!
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