Dead area. Wood chipped last year. Noon.

Broken old raised bed structure. Stuck together (mostly). Two strips of copper tape on each side to annoy slugs and snails. An hour running the garden shredder to chip all the January pruning waste.

Some considerable time swinging the axe to break up the big logs and branches that don’t fit in the shredder.

Covered in cardboard, that was then soaked with the hosepipe. Then two giant bins of compost were dug out of compost bin 1 and dumped and raked over the top.

Recyclable insulation packs left over from deliveries from my organic produce provider. They will stay on for a month or so. Once they’re off, the compost will have settled down into any voids in the layers underneath, and I’ll know how much more compost I will need to raise the soil level to the top of the sides.

Old hose pipe shoved over bamboo canes to create support for netting. As you can see, the canes turned out to be of very variable thickness, and I need to pick and insert more suitable canes next week. But it’s done, and I can adjust things next month.

And that was my Saturday afternoon. Or just under 9000 steps.