29th July 2021, 10 months into the project almost and still pushing on
We have had the allotment over 10 months now and so much has happened, but as soon as things get done, new ideas spring to mind to take things onto a different level.
These top bits of ground by the path appear to house plenty of rubble as you can see by the big pile of bricks, stones, and the like. Makes digging tricky and laborious but that’s the interesting thing about allotments, you never know what you might find under there.
Once the pile of earth is out the next step is to finish the side wall and to build a dry brick wall for the other side. (Still some way before doing that though!)
The next picture you can see a small mound of soil along with the egg shells (good for calcium in the soil). Here we are beginning to tip the surplus soil from the construction as well as the growing mound by the side of the polytunnel. Not much soil to go now thankfully or we would genuinely have nowhere to put it.
Tomatoes are filling up the polytunnel as well, although to be honest, there isn’t a lot of fruit on them. Seems like they have been producing mainly foliage and flowers that don’t get pollinated. Hopefully they will pick up as we can only see one or two tomatoes in there.
Round the back of the tomatoes the butternut squashes are beginning to take over the lower patch of ground. I have a suspicion that August and September might see a flurry of fruits being created, well we can always hope…
As the terrace area is constructed we are locating our seats wherever we can. This piece of ground in the excavation is quite stable, although the metal feet of the chairs have a tendency to sink into the mud! Can’t wait until we have the seating area all set up and we can rest in comfort overlooking the rest of the “Haven”.
