The main job today was to add 6 more raised bed layers, which will enable me to have 2 3-layer hotbeds and 6 beds with 2 layers each. This required considerable help from Geepee, for which I am very grateful.
With absolute inevitability the day we chose to do this was the day the tree men brought their lorry a lot nearer to my end of the allotments. Fortunately they left enough space between their lorry and the bus stop to park a car and we were able to get the job done without any problems.
The tree men were making good progress by lunchtime and looked like they might reach my plot by the end of the day. I had things to do at home in the afternoon, but walked down at about 4pm to see how they were getting on. They were cutting all the branches off and had got about half way down my plot, where they were struggling with a wire fence that was embedded in the trees. They had moved the neighbour's shed forward and I was concerned that they may need to move mine, which I was not expecting - there isn't room to pull it forward much and there is absolutely no way I could put it back myself. It is also full of stuff that I have nowhere else to put. They agreed to try to get the trees down without moving the shed. They also agreed to take off a large branch of an ash tree which is overhanging the shed and could fall on it.
I'm not able to get down there today until late afternoon (when it may or may not be dark) so I am just going to have to leave them to it and hope that all is ok when I next see it. Fingers crossed.
With absolute inevitability the day we chose to do this was the day the tree men brought their lorry a lot nearer to my end of the allotments. Fortunately they left enough space between their lorry and the bus stop to park a car and we were able to get the job done without any problems.
The tree men were making good progress by lunchtime and looked like they might reach my plot by the end of the day. I had things to do at home in the afternoon, but walked down at about 4pm to see how they were getting on. They were cutting all the branches off and had got about half way down my plot, where they were struggling with a wire fence that was embedded in the trees. They had moved the neighbour's shed forward and I was concerned that they may need to move mine, which I was not expecting - there isn't room to pull it forward much and there is absolutely no way I could put it back myself. It is also full of stuff that I have nowhere else to put. They agreed to try to get the trees down without moving the shed. They also agreed to take off a large branch of an ash tree which is overhanging the shed and could fall on it.
I'm not able to get down there today until late afternoon (when it may or may not be dark) so I am just going to have to leave them to it and hope that all is ok when I next see it. Fingers crossed.
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