Making more beds / flowers / cat

Went up to the plot yesterday to get some more raised beds in, as well as finishing off the half-bed for peas. For the half bed we put in some tree stakes at either end, and made a long wigwam (more strictly is probably an A-frame) for peas to grow up - this is anchored at either end to the tree stakes to make it more wind-resistant than previous efforts...

This should be strong enough to grow almost anything up! The apex is made from a pair of 8' canes spliced together with strong garden wire, and the uprights are 4' canes at 1' intervals. We also put in some more full-sized raised beds - one for a neighbour who's borrowing a bit of our plot for a few beds:

We also had some flowers come - tulips planted in one of the beds for cutting (since cut) -

So it's not all vegetables! Finally we have an allotment cat (or a pair of cats, but they are rarely seen at the same time - and they are strictly probably kittens anyway) - good fun but do get under your feet!

Finishing Fences / Plant Support

Put some posts in a week ago, but plants need something to actually grow up so put some 2mm wire along today - nothing very interesting but decided to anchor the wire with a metpost to allow tensioning all wires at the same time:

The four wires total around 40m - looped through eyes on each of the posts:

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Interesting fact: the apparent leaning is an optical effect because of how my camera was orientated...

Anyway, should have plenty of room for fruit bushes now!

Bed Making (reprise)

2019 raised bed season has started - been digging over the ground for the next three beds. Exciting stuff! Wet, heavy cold clay soil with bind weed roots / grass / buttercups etc. mixed in. Nice thing about the raised bed concept is not having to do this again. Anyhow - started with:

Some digging later first bed was better:

Some more digging later about half way through #2 bed:

This was the sort of stuff I was removing:

And while I was there had some "help" - a neighbourhood cat literally getting under my feet:

Construction at Allotment

Started 2019 season work - putting a fence along the west side of the plot to support raspberries and a loganberry I was given for my birthday, using an allotment-neighbours post knocker:

The posts are from ~ a year back! Plan is to put these along the full west side of the plot where the prevailing wind comes from, and string up some strong wire to tie in fruit canes (the raspberries got a little unruly last year). Also started laying out the next 6 raised beds for installation.

Couple weeks back also put in a demi-bed between the strawberries and black currant bushes -

The idea of this one is to put some teepees for sweet pees (now there's a way to use up e's in Scrabble) - it's half width so 0.75 x 3m in size, should be good for four teepees?