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As of yesterday, we now have a new shed. It has no floor, no power, and therefore no lights, but it's all installed. The concrete guy is due some time to scope out exactly what he has to do to give the shed a floor.
The shed is a little higher up than I was expecting. This means that there is a gap between the bottom of the shed and the clay dirt. My SO is also not sure we really need power in the shed, since he thinks it's going to be used primarily for storage. It's right in the middle of my vege patch, of course it's going to be used for storage. Of chemicals. And smelly things. And sharp cutting things. And Seeds. No matter what, we need to have the capacity to install power and other good things in years to come (mmmm heated seed trays...), which to me means that we put a short, straight length of some form of tube to go through the concrete. It's got a slat window in the sunny wall against which I'm planning to grow things. If mice and bugs want to invade, they'll do so in spite of the pristineness of the concrete. If we really want to, we can drill holes in the steel walls, so it's not a big issue.
In woohoo territory, last night I wandered out to look at the shed which appeared while I was at work, and noticed that some of my broad beans finally had pods. And some of them were big enough to be classed baby broad bean pods, so I picked them and sliced them into chunks and cooked them into dinner and they were tasty. I hate broad beans, but I liked them. I'll have to wait for some of them to get big enough to be not baby broad beans to see if it's just that I only like really fresh ones.
Tomorrows' job: Get out the tape measure and plan exactly how many beds of what I'll plant, and where. Also, how high they'll be raised, how much soil, sand, compost, and mulch of what grades I need to order. And bricks, besser blocks, sleepers, or whatever else I end up using to form the edges of those beds. I could even use timber - but I need to know what sizes and lengths and so forth for when I go to the salvage yard.
I'm planning raised beds, with coarse sand paths in between. The question is how wide do I want those paths - must I be able to get a wheelbarrow everywhere, or are main paths at the end of the rows sufficient?
The shed is a little higher up than I was expecting. This means that there is a gap between the bottom of the shed and the clay dirt. My SO is also not sure we really need power in the shed, since he thinks it's going to be used primarily for storage. It's right in the middle of my vege patch, of course it's going to be used for storage. Of chemicals. And smelly things. And sharp cutting things. And Seeds. No matter what, we need to have the capacity to install power and other good things in years to come (mmmm heated seed trays...), which to me means that we put a short, straight length of some form of tube to go through the concrete. It's got a slat window in the sunny wall against which I'm planning to grow things. If mice and bugs want to invade, they'll do so in spite of the pristineness of the concrete. If we really want to, we can drill holes in the steel walls, so it's not a big issue.
In woohoo territory, last night I wandered out to look at the shed which appeared while I was at work, and noticed that some of my broad beans finally had pods. And some of them were big enough to be classed baby broad bean pods, so I picked them and sliced them into chunks and cooked them into dinner and they were tasty. I hate broad beans, but I liked them. I'll have to wait for some of them to get big enough to be not baby broad beans to see if it's just that I only like really fresh ones.
Tomorrows' job: Get out the tape measure and plan exactly how many beds of what I'll plant, and where. Also, how high they'll be raised, how much soil, sand, compost, and mulch of what grades I need to order. And bricks, besser blocks, sleepers, or whatever else I end up using to form the edges of those beds. I could even use timber - but I need to know what sizes and lengths and so forth for when I go to the salvage yard.
I'm planning raised beds, with coarse sand paths in between. The question is how wide do I want those paths - must I be able to get a wheelbarrow everywhere, or are main paths at the end of the rows sufficient?
