March 6th, 2009 by Rich

This week has been a bit odd, much spent off work feeling rubbish, so it is only now that I have gotten around to posting so I shall keep it short(ish)!

Last weekend was fairly busy, we glazed the replacement greenhouse which was a bit of a pain. This is our replacement one from the council and unfortunately the glazing is very thin polycarbonate, a bit like food packaging and is held in place with long strips that snap into place. After a couple of hours with some minor sweary rants it was done and looks OK as you can see below.

Post glazing, I planted out two rhubarb and 4 currant plants which we have had in pots since digging them up from our Cow Lane Plot. Meanwhile Lou did some seed sowing in the greenhouse. I think that was it for Saturday……

Sunday started off with some construction, having looked at the price of greenhouse staging I decided I would build some myself. I got a couple of lengths of wood cheap from focus do it all, stripped down a pallet that the shed had been delivered on, found some batons that were left over the shed and utilised some wire shelves we had from some of those crummy plastic mini greenhouses. Once I had all the parts measured and the visual in my head off I went. The result was pretty good and is around 5 and a bit foot of staging with some storage underneath. It’s not the prettiest of things but the total cost was a fiver, compare that to the £60 they wanted in the shops! To prove it isn’t pretty there is a photo below (click on the pic to get the full size versions)

The rest of the day was spent rotavating the two areas I didn’t get done last week. I’m sure we did some other stuff but I really can’t remember what now, I blame the illness! (that’s my excuse anyway).