30th July 2021, The digging is mostly done (for now), weather continues
The weather hasn’t been playing ball too much of late, so we are having to dodge the rains. The first picture is the last spade of soil to be excavated from the terrace ditch. This was all dug by eye as opposed to trying to level the base all out. The thing is, nothing is level, so everything is just at a different height. Best thing to do, Chris decided, is work on the basis that it is approximately correct and then when we are filling in the hole we level things up before we put the decking on.
We believe this is our very first Passiflora flower. Chris says his mother used to have this in her garden and he loved the flower, how very exquisite it is. Who but nature could engineer such a thing of beauty as this! Not only that, but totally functional and works in every way.
A view across the allotments. This is what we have been contending with pretty much for the whole of the summer. And we wonder why the tomatoes and potatoes are complaining… stop / start rain! Great for slugs and ducks, not so good for ripe tomatoes!
Pretty impressive cloud formations though… you have to hand it to nature, its got everything covered, from flowers, vegetables, rain, sun and of course wind.
