Today a group of 18 of us travelled to the allotments located in the Scholemoor Road area of Lidget Green, to continue to assist in putting the garden’s infrastructure in place as well as finishing off the polytunnel by fixing its outer membrane onto its metal frame.
The opening of the garden is planned for 25th February, so the group split up into smaller teams and went about the task of weeding, raking and general landscaping the raised bedded areas, while a group focused its attention on the polytunnel.
The work was delayed due to a brief spell of bad weather in the morning, however shortly afterwards the work was able to begin. The team swiftly applied the Anti hot spot tape once the metal frame had been dried of moisture. The Polythene was then drawn over the structure until it hung equally on each side. Once satisfied with the polythene sheet alignment the team stretched the sheet tight, trimmed it around the door frames battening around the ends before applying the necessary two stages tensioning of the sheet in order to obtain a drum like tightness.
See the end result and more photos here.