Making progress

 

We've had some really back breaking work to do on plot 8 in the last couple of weeks. The conifer tree which was causing us some concern finally came down with help from Richard and one or two allotment neighbours.  The only damage was in the pond where an iris stalk got a bit bent but it seems to have recovered now. Just in the nick of  time I removed my precious marsh marigold and the duck which we had found in the mud at the bottom of the old pond.

So with that problem sorted it was back to work on filling in the old pond with rubble and clearing the area of weeds

It took a lot of rubble to fill it.

You can now start to see where the new growhouse is going to be. This area will soon be filled with gravel. This time last last year this area was full of weeds. There's lots more still to be done but it's beginning to look much better.