The New shed on plot 19, at last !

At last I can show you the new/secondhand shed. It's 8ft x 6ft where as the small one was 6ft x 4ft, so I have lots more room and can even sit comfortably in it when it rains.
I wish I had been up at the lottie when the small shed was moved over to plot 30. Planks of wood were screwed to the sides and it was carried Sudan chair style over there by 4 people. That's one way of doing it !

Now the shed is all finished (except for one more coat of the red cedar) I can concentrate on the important stuff, like planting out my cabbages and some more Kale. I have a new flower bed ready to take the dahlias when they can go out. It's the bed with the rope edging .

I'm also looking forward to paving the ground in front of the greenhouse as it was so uneven before, and I now have enough planting area for 2 maybe 3 raised beds. Moving the shed on to the concrete area has given me more planting area, which was why the council kindly gave it to me.
The last photo is of my allotment neighbour John pretending to be a scarecrow. I did warn him I was going to post the pic on this blog !!

The new shed, it's so spacious, I love it.

The little shed has now gone to my daughter Niki and Paul's plot

(No 30) it looks like a sentry box!

Niki & Paul have done wonders on their plot in a few months (Ok Niki, I eat my words, you proved me wrong, well done !)

This is the area the small shed was on, so I am now planning it out to plant and pave in front of the greenhouse.

John pretending to be a scarecrow !!

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.