Day 3 of the great shed build.

Not a lot to write about, the shed is nearly ready to be clad now, so pallet stripping is on the cards next days off.
The high point of today was getting the two windows in place. The low point, Buster has managed to chew a piece of wood and get it stuck across the roof of his mouth, so he is presently at the vets knocked out so it can be removed. Emergency vets bills were not part of this weekends plans !

The shed so far.

The view from the window.

 

Next step is to nail the pallet strip boards to the outside, seal any holes then paint with some blue or green preservative.

I m sure it will be the envy of our neighbours once completed.

We might even get a bit more of the plot dug over next days off, so that we can get the sweetcorn in and maybe some leeks.

I m pleased the fishing has remained rubbish....so much to do on the allotment at least I'm not being tempted away by fishing.

The shed has started to rise from the dust.

Now that we've got the spuds in the ground, time to make a start on the pallet shed.

I ve got the base done and a little of the walls put together so far. ore tomorrow if the rain stays off.....you watch, the one day I want it to stay fine and the drought will break...lol !

First spuds in the ground on the allotment.

I spent one of the last set of days down on the plot , mainly digging, rotovating and moving pallets until I was about broken. Then a day attacking the garage at home, which after a winter of neglect was in a right old state. I was pleased to get back to work for a rest !

With the weather still being too dry but at least sunny, we decided to dash back down to the allotment after work tonight and see if we could get some of the spuds into the ground.

The little Mantis tiller made short work of making the trenches and in about an hour we got 6 rows in. 3 rows of  "Swift" first earlies and 3 rows of  "Pink fir apple" a vintage maincrop.....supposedly producing lovely knobbly pink skinned spuds.

Well that's it tea time now. Just a few snaps of our first efforts at spuds in the ground growing.....last year we only grew them in bags, so a whole new challenge growing on a little larger scale.

 

The boys watched over to make sure everything went to plan........well more like they remained captive to make sure everything went to plan !

This weekend we start on the great pallet mountain and try to turn them into an allotment shed !