Farcebook

Category: Allotment

  • Shed roof garden maintenance

    Shed roof garden maintenance

    The roof garden on my shed needs sorting out, a lot of giant daisies grew this year and while they looked nice at the time, their dead remains need trimming.

    It’s not too difficult with a ladder, but some areas required a bit of climbing about on my fence.

    Once trimmed I moved some random bulbs I had in planters and tipped the remains of the planters on the roof to add some more soil.

    There’s quite a lot of different plants up there, some I didn’t put there. Also found a few small trees trying to grow and snipped their shoots off.

  • A pane in the grass

    A pane in the grass

    The nice thing about sheds is that their windows are all the same size. The bad thing about sheds is the glass is expensive. So I’ve reclaimed the almost-four panes from the old shed to reuse at home.

    No idea how old this shed is, but the windows are held in more by luck than anything.

    But with a bit of careful prying to remove old putty and rusty nails the glass came out without breaking any more than it currently is.

    After a bit of a clean they’ll be good as new and ready to fit in one of my sheds at home to provide some luxury double glazing.

  • Glueing up a butt hole

    Glueing up a butt hole

    At the allotment I’ve moved the water butt so it can catch rain off the shed roof, rather than not catching rain off the greenhouse’s broken roof.

    The butt is quite old, the plastic has faded in the sunlight and the tap leaks. The first job was attaching guttering to the shed.

    As it’s metal and about two millimetres thick I used rivets and they seem to hold it well enough.

    I managed to build a little platform out of a paving slab and some highly dubious wood that isn’t entirely rotten. It’s straight enough…

    Next door’s chickens were assessing the quality of the workmanship. There was some suspicious clucking but I think it passed.

    Finally I had to glue the tap in to stop it leaking. I used some cheap pound shop epoxy, it should be good enough.

    Now I just need it to rain!

  • Weeding and tidying

    Now we’re harvesting the various crops that have been growing, it’s a good time to do some tidying.

    After harvesting all the potatoes, I’ve dug the bed over ready for next year. At some point I’ll throw some fertiliser on it, and let the weather have a go at it too.

    It’s also been a chance to tidy up the piles of plant pots and boxes allotments seem to accumulate.

    And then finally some weeding to help the corn and beans keep growing.

  • Corn! Beans!

    Corn! Beans!

    Now the weather has cooled down a bit and there’s been some rain, the corn has grown pretty quickly.

    The beans have also gone a bit mad. I think next year I’ll remember where I’ve planted them and put up a little frame for them to grow up.