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Tag: Shed

  • 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!

  • I like big butts and neatly trimmed bushes…

    I like big butts and neatly trimmed bushes…

    Last year I made a roof garden on my shed, and I noticed it takes a fair amount of water in summer, so in the spirit of conserving resources I decided I need another water butt.

    The shed has a small butt, but it doesn’t catch much water and is mostly there to keep the runoff from watering. Also as you can see the downpipe has fallen off and it’s being overtaken by the bushes around it.

    I have another shed that doesn’t have a water butt, so I went off to Wickes and bought a 210L one.

    No idea why there’s a dent in it, but some rain will sort that out I’m sure. First I had to remove the tomatoes, they seem to have given up, the tomatoes aren’t ripening any more.

    The big butt came with a base and after levelling the ground it sits nicely with enough space to get a watering can under the tap (which I glued in to stop leaks).

    So finally the small butt needed some attention along with the messy bush, which had a trim. I fixed the downpipes and trimmed things so it’s easier to get to. I might rig up an overflow to the other butt at some point.

    Now I just need to wait for the rain. It’s mid September, so I’m sure there’ll be plenty in a week or two!

  • 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.

  • Shed Upgrade

    Shed Upgrade

    Our existing shed was given to us free when we first had the plot.

    Slowly over time it has fallen apart and is less a shed and more a pile of semi rotten wood. The roof doesn’t really exist any more.

    A rather large amount of bindweed had tried making the place its home, but I also think it’s structural.

    Our “new” shed isn’t much better, it’s an old metal thing I bought after moving house and needed somewhere to store things while we moved in.

    It’s spent the past year in a pile but has mostly gone back together.