Allotment Week Day 2: Making chaos out of order... wait, I mean...

So the plot still has issues. Mostly the issues are with the amount of bindweed that is in the ground, but the biggest issue is that it's not very organised. Although we've had beds dug which were pretty much ad-hoc, they worked well at the time. The problem is that it's just too messy. I've been trying to organise some parts of the plot with my modular stackable beds. But since nothing was growing there over the winter time, they kind of got used as a dumping ground for whatever happened to need a place to be put.

So, time to get organised. First off, shift the carpet out. This will be used as a covering in the main walk way area of the plot. It'll eventually get moved towards the end of the year to make way for a new bed, but for now it serves as a central area where the boss can keep an eye on me.

The new bed area has to be dug out to remove the bindweed rhizomes. Then I laid some hugelkultur into the bottom if it.

Placed down some cardboard and made a start sieving the dug out soil back into the bed. That was seriously hard, back breaking work. But eventually we ended up with one of the two new beds done.

It all looks a little neater now.

The second bed I'll finish tomorrow. If anybody is curious, underneath the trellis and pallet are our onions. Cover to stop Mr Fox from displacing them whilst they settle in.

And on the subject of Fox, the Boss has put some foxgloves in the flower bed.

Hope our resident doesn't try digging them up.