The Good Life...Ish.

Hello all! The Polygreen is all finished!  Also, not only is it finished, you may noticed it has been moved too!  With the garden being so exposed, i decided it would be better for it to be side on to the wind, rather than head on, that way, hopefully, the wind will just go straight over the top.  It's been quite a learning curve, figuring out how to keep it all together, stop it from flying away or collapsing! A new sign for the garden gate. The back wall being put up. A bench for the plants to sit on It's also just nice to sit in and just chill out with my morning coffee, as well as to grow plants in. Last week saw me being given rather a lot of plants! A friend down the road gave me 6 tomato plants, and the bloke who gave me the blackcurrant bushes last year turned up with MORE tomato plants, so i now have 11 to try and keep alive haha. He also brought some pepper plants, courgette, rosemary, borage and sage. I origi...

When life gives you an opportunity, grab it with both hands! A wonderful friend is possibly giving up her allotment, and last year her poor greenhouse got blown to bits in a storm and she decided it wasn't worth trying to put it back together, so i asked if there was any parts that were salvageable, in the hopes i could at least save some of it to build one later on. I was gobsmacked when there was so many parts that were useable!  The two sides were perfectly fine, she took the broken glass out for use in the stained glass course we are about to start, and she had a lot of black plastic that will work perfectly fine (I hope!) so that is being put to good use.  When i first started collecting the useable parts, i was going to build it the traditional way and create a triangular roof, but it would have been too difficult to piece back together, so my friends husband had the idea of creating an arched roof instead, which was much easier!  (Please ignor...