There has certainly been more rain this week than anyone could wish for, including me. The soil turned very quickly from pleasantly workable to completely sodden and too heavy to lift. Fortunately, the pleasantly workable stage coincided with the last few weeks of British summer time and I managed to get a lot of digging done between work and dusk.

As well as digging up to the bath pond, I’ve managed to get few jobs completed or moved forward.

Shed roof repaired; for reasons unknown the previous tenant only covered three-quarters of the ply roof with felt. I’ve become confident and a bit competent with a circular saw, so chopped off the rotten overhang, re-felted and added a gutter that eventually will collect into a water butt.

Replaced the rotten ply on the roof of the ‘germination station’, painted inside and re-felted.

Shed base ready to receive the tool shed

First coat on old shed, which will become the tea shed but painting damp wood isn’t a great idea

Pallet patio foundations down

I ordered new raspberry canes from Ashridge Nurseries and was expecting them in March 24 but they arrived 2 days ago! They are temporarily heeled in, awaiting transportation to the plot – at least their bed is prepared for them.

I’ve hired son and van this weekend to transport the water butts to the new plot and on that basis I predict a prolonged dry spell from Monday.

Happy plotting 🙂