Last Saturday morning saw the 4 musketeers... sorry, alloteers... cover the polytunnel with a fresh skin of polythene. The task turned out to be a fine example of teamwork. Caroline and Irene supported us amply with coffee, sausage sandwiches and beer, mopping the sweat off our manly brows. The first picture attached shows the end result. We also have an hour's worth of video footage. However I shall save the alloteers' embarrassment by not uploading it to Youtube: this would only demonstrate to our many readers just how slow the whole process was.
I've been down since then, to plant out some pea shoots and cover them with a cloche (second pic). Both it and the shoots are delicate, and may not survive the harsh wind and chill. If the allotment plot were an NHS hospital, then we would have to enclose the cloche with an incubator - or at least another, larger, cloche.
So there you have it. Plot 41 now possesses a fine strapping polytunnel and its weedy- looking offspring.
Mike
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