Construction Part 2

Part 2 of the construction project is a cold frame. I bought a load of old cold frame lights last summer . Each light is about 4' X 4' and made of Oak. They came from some botanic gardens in Oxford.

Matt has started building a cold frame which will house Aubergines I think. He has done a sterling job and once it has sides and a back, and a front then it will be great.

It will be even better if he builds another one to the left as we do have a stock of lights but I wont push it :-).

Garlic Overload

I think I may have gone overboard with the Garlic this year, the patch nearest in the picture is on our original plot, those on the other side of the path are on the new plot. In total there are 8 20' rows of garlic, hmmm.

Building Projects

Matt has been very busy on the new plot building things out of old bits and pieces. First up was a big manure holding pen with 2 compost bays attached. the whole construction is about 16 feet by 8 feet and is built out of old pallets and wooden stakes.

Its great building things out of old rubbish at the allotment - I guess its an original form of recycling and I find it hard driving past a skip without slowing down.

Matt did a great job with the bays, known by many other people at the allotment as the Coralles. It will come in so handy to have big bays for the compost as we dont throw anything green away and always have loads.

Back on Blog

The blog has had a bit of a gap during February as we went on holiday for a week and then spent the last 3 weeks trying to catch up. But we are there now.

We went to Norway on a ship up to the north to try and see the Northern Lights. In the event we didnt see them but the scenery and villages was fantastic. It was the third time we have been to Norway, it is a lovely lovely country but just too expensive!