The 6 tonne problem

The polytunnel is starting to look interesting again. I say starting because we started work on the raised beds a couple of weeks ago. Using old pallets we have cobbled them together into something that that we think looks pretty good, and even more importantly will work pretty well too.

Being quite large and sitting on a double layer of weedproof membrane meant we needed a pretty large amount of stuff to fill them with. Not being short of manure thanks to Tom and his four legged friends down the road was a good start but sourcing topsoil proved difficult - the internet was throwing up suppliers charging £100 a tonne!

Luckily the company we have been using for skips, Greenacres Skip Hire, had a load so we had 6 tonnes delivered...