This is the view of the patch of land outside the allotment that has been a bit of a flytipping and dog toilet over the past few years. The O2 funding we've received is to turn this spot into a wildlife corridor and extra planting area (I'm hoping to get the mother and toddler group to take on a few little square foot gardening beds on here as well). We need to get moving though, as the work really needs to be completed within a month.
Alan, Peter and I planned out the line of the native hedging along the perimeter of the track using some of the soil conditioner, as the soil is more gravel than anything else at the edges and needs all the help it can get.
We also sowed a few seeds in the polytunnel (aubergine, peppers), which has taken a bit of a bashing lately with the strong winds and is looking a little worse for wear.
There's now four patches on the plastic, a snapped pole, and one side has lifted a little alarmingly. This is despite anchor plates securing it a fair way down, but the weakness has always been the close proximity to the fence, which meant we couldn't bury the plastic as well as the other side. Hindsight is a wonderful thing; my advice to anyone planning a polytunnel is to make sure your site has plenty of access on either side to avoid this problem!
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