'ALLOTMENT HEAVEN' An Allotment blog - a journey in allotmenteering which began in February 2008.
Saturday, 7 March 2009
I'm full of admiration for the DIY'ers on the allotment
I worked for around 3 hours on the plot today, and whilst up there I was full of admiration for the DIY skills of our new plot holders. They have built not only a fantastic chicken run and house, but are also building their own shed from scratch. It cost them the princely sum of £5 yes !! £5, apparently they went to Homebase and it was all in a skip ready to be scrapped, all assorted bits of timber and broken panels, and they asked to buy it and that was what they got it for, amazing eh ? My immediate lottie neighbour and I, another Maureen, went over to introduce ourselves and to be nosy ( of course!) they are very nice and come from Georgia, Russia. So our little end of the allotment is a mixed bag of Scottish, Irish, English and Russian, and 3 Maureen's !!
The photo below is of the Russians new timber shed, not quite finished yet, and the chicken house. They are so clever.
And then as I was walking along the path I spotted another building going up. My friend Tom was building what looks like a shed, but it's not a shed it's going to be a greenhouse, Wow ! I am so amazed at peoples skills. I will post another photo when Tom has finished it.I finally planted out all of the garlic that I had growing in the greenhouse. I have been hardening it off over the last week. I got 12 into the end of the bed that the Broad beans went into the other day. (photo below) and planted another 20 in a different bed. I am not sure how many I planted straight into the ground last autumn but it looks like I might be self sufficient with garlic this year, which is great as I use a lot.
Maureen - that £5 shed is most impressive! I quite fancy their chicken run too. I'd love to keep chickens but my husband feels we haven't got space for them and I suspect he's right really.
Sue, I do sympathise, but could you perhaps learn to do it yourself?
If I'm gonna built something, I'll ask my brother for help. He's handy at those kind of things. My husband and I will help of course. It is a lot cheaper to built your own.
Thanks you all for the comments. SUE, I wish myself and the husband had the skills as well. I do all the decorating and can put flat packs furniture together, but I would love to be able to build something from scratch. Like BLOSSOM,I have a handy relative as well,when we need help. ANNA no I haven't heard of the Womble rumour, that's funny. Glad you like my title photo, I made that sign last year for my plot.
Don't you love people's resourcefulness! Good for them £5 is nothing for a shed. Hate (not really) to rub it in but i have one of those husbands that can turn a hand to anything!! So lucky. Though it wouldn't stop me from giving it a go myself. We'll be self sufficent in garlic too - went a bit overboard with the amount we planted, hehe!
I started this blog in November 2008. I didn't know where it would go or even if I would keep at it. But here I am now into April 2014 and still blogging and enjoying it. I still remember the excitement when I got my first comment, and now I even have followers, amazing !! I also follow and read a lot of brillient blogs and have made some lovely friends in the blogging world.
It's also very useful keeping a diary about my allotment and it serves as a personal record of my achievements and of my failures. In fact when I re-read some of my older entries it makes me wonder how I managed back then to find the time to get the allotment plot up to the planting and growing stage, but I did and I grew a great variety of vegetables and fruit in my first year, and it's just got better.
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And then as I was walking along the path I spotted another building going up. My friend Tom was building what looks like a shed, but it's not a shed it's going to be a greenhouse, Wow ! I am so amazed at peoples skills. I will post another photo when Tom has finished it.
I finally planted out all of the garlic that I had growing in the greenhouse. I have been hardening it off over the last week. I got 12 into the end of the bed that the Broad beans went into the other day. (photo below) and planted another 20 in a different bed. I am not sure how many I planted straight into the ground last autumn but it looks like I might be self sufficient with garlic this year, which is great as I use a lot.
6 comments:
Your garlic looks good. I wish my husband and I had more skills to build or at least fix things.
Maureen - that £5 shed is most impressive! I quite fancy their chicken run too. I'd love to keep chickens but my husband feels we haven't got space for them and I suspect he's right really.
Sue, I do sympathise, but could you perhaps learn to do it yourself?
If I'm gonna built something, I'll ask my brother for help. He's handy at those kind of things. My husband and I will help of course. It is a lot cheaper to built your own.
Some great constructions in the making there Maureen. Have you heard of allotmenteers being compared to the Wombles ? :) I like your new blog header !
Thanks you all for the comments.
SUE, I wish myself and the husband had the skills as well. I do all the decorating and can put flat packs furniture together, but I would love to be able to build something from scratch. Like BLOSSOM,I have a handy relative as well,when we need help.
ANNA no I haven't heard of the Womble rumour, that's funny. Glad you like my title photo, I made that sign last year for my plot.
Don't you love people's resourcefulness! Good for them £5 is nothing for a shed.
Hate (not really) to rub it in but i have one of those husbands that can turn a hand to anything!! So lucky. Though it wouldn't stop me from giving it a go myself.
We'll be self sufficent in garlic too - went a bit overboard with the amount we planted, hehe!
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