31st July 2021, Rain tries to stop play, but we work around it
Fortunately we have long days at the moment because the weather is making the whole allotment experience a bit of a stop / start affair. As you can see the rain has been pouring down and the nature of the road close by and the drainage has meant that we are working in a puddle (small pond).
The job is to get the side wall all installed so that we can begin to fill in the space vacated by the soil and begin to build the terrace, now all the “digging out” is completed.
One of the big issues we’ve got here with the allotment is these puddles on the road. What we are doing is actually providing an easier escape route for the water by digging out this soil, so we must make sure that the drainage under the terrace and elsewhere on the plot is able to distribute the water easily.
As you can see here the area of the terrace is flooded, the rain has stopped. Here we are looking across the compost bins, over the piles of pallets (for future use) and this big mountain of earth which we have dug out of the terrace area. We are sure we will find a use for all this displaced soil in time, but we are moving soil around the plot from pillar to post.
The wood surround is installed. This is not the raised bed wood, only the wood being used to support the base of the terrace. So the first layer is wood just so that the plastic is somewhat protected from what comes next - basically rubbish we have recovered from the plot and adjacent plots. So that is the first step…
Finally we add in the rubbish to fill up the space and also plenty of stones harvested from the digging out process of this terrace and other digging around the allotment… all in all a reasonable amount of rubbish taken out of circulation and put to a good use.
Quite pleased with the day’s work amongst all the rain, this sees in the end of July… tomorrow another month begins and the work continues on!
