Well, its been a few months since the last Dublin veg garden update. The main reason for this is that its a really nice place to be hanging out, and frankly its a bit addictive.
If you couple that with the fantastic weather we have been having during May and June, and also not forgetting the friendly crowd of other allotment holders at Clogher road, it makes more sense. Surprisingly for us despite our lack of experience, and general haphazard approach, the vegetables we have planted have all grown remarkably well.
We have been fortunate to have had a helping hand from an experienced gardener or two ( thanks David and Gerry) for a couple of small plants to get us growing.
We found a handy skip just beside the allotment with old wooden desktops from Pearse College, we recycled these into 2 small compost bins ( you can see them in the backround of the first photo ).
We spent and evening “skip surfing” and created some ingenious “Saloon style” entrance gates, we are amazed at the good wood that gets thrown away!You can get an idea from the picture, that one persons junk is anothers treasure.
The fencing of the site was possibly the biggest single job, and fortunatley we have a couple of volunteers to help out that day. We bought a number of fence posts ,a roll of wire , and a sledge hammer. The hardest part was making a deep enough hole for the fence posts. The land contains a lot of stones and broken glass, which had to be dug out so that the fence post could be sunk deep enough.
