What Jobs Are We Doing in the Garden Today... MK2..

Currently, I'm more knackered than excited, but yeah - really looking forward to growing all sorts next year.

:P no, they do work thankfully - bit more subtle than that

 

It looks as though you forgot to install the armchair and beer brewing equipment!

Out of interest - is that dark square a manhole personhole cover?

 

Thanks all It looks even better today now that its got some greenery in it - I'll try and get some photos tomorrow.

The dark square is a manhole cover, however there is enough space under the frame for us to lift the lid to gain access should we need to - there is also another access cover just at the front of the shed; it is currently partly obscured by the shed, and is part of the reason that I want to spin the shed around, but neither of them will be completely impossible to access.

The clog - well, suffice to say that on the front gable you will see the top door runner, and on either end of that top door runner there should be a piece of frame that comes down vertically and attaches to the main frame to stop the door runner sagging when the doors are fully open.

We only found these two vertical bars when we were at glazing stage, and the bottom edge of it should be sandwiched in between the angle bracket for the roof and the frame for the front, so retro-fitting it is nigh on impossible.

The solution for now is to simply not open the doors fully (not that they seem to suffer too much if they are opened fully), and then work on fabricating a suitable support that I can bolt on to the outside of the frame instead of having to dismantle half the greenhouse.

Instructions for assembly were rubbish at best - that is our excuse, and we are sticking to it!

 

Fingers crossed it all goes my way today - got a day off work (school inset day for the wee one), and got family coming for a visit tomorrow, so want the place to be looking at least half decent - so, on the job list for today is:

- Finish dismantling the polytunnel and find a home for it until I decide how to cannibalise it to recycle at least some of it.

- Cut the grass

- Cull the remaining tomato and courgette plants (lets be honest, they aren't going to do much now with the temps near freezing at night); clean the pots and tuck them up in the greenhouse.

- Move the veggie bags over to their intended position for next year (albeit that they will need emptied and refilled with fresh compost in the spring), then move the planter over to its new home in front of the shed.

- Swap out the plants in a few pots that are getting tired for winter plants.

- Pressure wash and bleach the wheelie bin, then the patio

- Sweep up the front garden and driveway, then wash the front door and the windows (our local council have this terrible habit of cutting the grass that is part of the pavement, and then simply use a leaf blower to blow the cuttings away, which then end up all over my door frames and in my front garden :wallbang

- Tidy the shed up a bit so I can re-home an air conditioner

- Cull the remaining coleus plants indoors, clean and store the pots

And then it is onto the inside of the house..............

 

Well, I got most of it done - didn't manage to tidy the shed, and instead ended up shoving even more stuff in there, so it should probably have its own government health warning or something now. I also didn't get to do the front, but that will take all of ten minutes in the morning, so not overly bothered.

Does it pass muster?