What an exciting week...

On the 6th January 2011, I met with John, Robert and Di and we had a very successful planning meeting. In a nutshell, I'm off to the allotment on Saturday or Sunday (depending on the weather) in order to pull down the larger of the two sheds. I'm going to save the very nicely weathered wood and will knock out a few sculptural boards for the raised beds, and perhaps make a sign or two, or planters; that kind of thing. We discussed Robert's allotment plans and made a few refinements. This might still be considered to be a draft, but you can see a floor plan of what the allotment might eventually look like here (sorry its a bit small, but I hope you can work out the detail):

Anyway, we also agreed that a few more things needs to be done. John and Adam (Di's husband) will be clearing the site of rubbish next Tuesday, 11th January 2011. After that we are going to try to address the couch grass problem again and hopefully then we might have a clean(ish) site that we can start work on. When the wood arrives we (well Robert) will edge the whole site with tanalised timber so we can have nice tidy allotment edges. Then we need to prepare the base for the shed. I've checked with the local Council, and the biggest shed we can have is 8 x 6ft, which will have to do. We'll probably lay a gravel base, on which we'll place batons, and then the shed itself.

Even more exciting, Anna has sourced some training from the charitable organisation 'Thrive' (you will find a link to the right of this post), so we'll all be able to get some insight into allotment gardening for the differently abled. Watch this space for dates and, when it happens, pictures.