Friday, 2 January 2009

Shopping for allotment

Do not let me into garden centres. Its lethal. After no success on freecycle, I resorted to homebase and bought the following:

  • Mid value fork (wooden shaft, plastic handle, painted prongs)
  • Cheapest pneumatic wheelled wheelbarrow
  • Mid value shovel
  • Pepper pot and seed set (in the sale)
  • 2 bags of sharp sand
I then couldn't resist popping into the fordham garden centre. Saw a nicer fork, for an extra £6 with ash handle, stainless steel head, nicely balanced, and lighter. So back to homebase I went to return the cheaper fork. Bloody fork handles.

Went up the lotty for an hour. Hand chopped the couch grass around the fruit bushes, and forked out some of the weeds, thus exposing the stawberries. These are Cambridge Favourites. I think there were 2 originally, but there could now be 6! Lots of runners.



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