{"id":22001,"date":"2016-05-25T08:40:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T07:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=22001"},"modified":"2016-05-25T09:03:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T08:03:31","slug":"garden-reconstruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/05\/garden-reconstruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Reconstruction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morgan was at home ill on Monday, he wasn’t too bad but he was recovering from a nasty bout of diarrhea and sickness on Sunday, so I\u00a0was housebound too. I did a fair bit of work first thing, then did an hour on the turbo trainer with some VO2max intervals courtesy of ‘Shortoff +1’ from TrainerRoad.<\/p>\n

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Hard work, but good. I then blitzed the house, giving it a good clean, polish and vacuum whilst doing several loads of washing and hanging it out in our super-drying-conservatory. When the sun is shining in the morning washing dries in no time out there. After lunch it was time for some garden reconstruction.<\/p>\n

Garden Reconstruction<\/h2>\n

We want to build a lean-to shelter behind the house to store our canoe<\/a> under so that means clearing out behind the house. I removed the raised bed on Sunday and re-purposed the wood to build a larger raised bed<\/a> in the back garden. Today\u00a0I started moving soil from behind the house and filling up the new raised bed with it. First I had to dig up the turf that was at the base of the raised bed and turn it over. This was competed faster than I expected thanks to the fact that I was chatting to Ted over the fence at the same time. I then started moving barrow loads of soil from behind the house. I also moved what felt like hundreds of bags of compost from behind the house and put them in the raised bed too. Despite the amount of soil and compost that I moved it\u00a0didn’t make a massive impression in the raised bed. There’s still some more to go though and it’ll give me a good excuse to dig out the compost bins soon too as I need to fill it up a little more than it is so far.<\/p>\n\n\t\t