I finally had a bit of time and inclination to complete the shed. I filled the hole in the front of the roof – with rusty steel slats that I found thrown away outside an exhibition hall. I have also removed the polycarbonate window that was on the side of the shed and replaced that with more rusty strips – to make it so that the whole shady side is clad in the same thing.
I’m quite happy with the final result – its quite odd looking and i will probably make a few more amendments – but it is at least waterproof now and has a lockable door.
I am going to start removing items soon though as i have heard that the autumn and early winter is a bad time for break-ins.

Popped up to the allotment after work today and barrowed a few loads of woodchip into the new pathway that I have layed out.
I’ve dug over the ground here and rolled out a layer of weed suppressing membrane held down by large logs that I have dragged to the allotment from the surrounding south down hills – which have recently been thinned out (leaving lots of logs and whole trees laying on the woodland floor).

Planted some tulips at home in my back garden – back in the autumn. These have come up brilliantly now and certainly help to fill the beds that were usually left empty over the colder months – awaiting planting with veg in the spring.

the back garden is relieved of most of its duties now that we have an allotment. So the beds will now become focussed more on companion planting with a mix of flowers and veg/herbs. We will still need a few edibles close to the kitchen.

The edibles we will still grow at home will probably be…

• Parsely – lots of
• Mint
• Lettuces
• Mustard
• Rocket
• Perpetual spinach
• Fennel (although these are trying their best to take over the whole garden)
• Radishes
• Chives

making more way for…

• Sunflowers
• Tulips
• Another tree maybe(we already have a pear tree)
• Shrubs -
• More lawn – we could extend the lawn back to its previous area and reduce the depth of the raised beds.