Project of the Month Challenge

[Snadger]

Mine's a Clear the Gaps project!
They're overgrown with nettles, brambles and other stuff and painful to push your way through. I started clearing the day I started this thread as I wanted moral support! I start things but rarely complete them, especially when I end up stung and scratched.

This is how it looks today - still a long way to go.

First Gap
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Leading to Second gap
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which is flanked by an unusable bench
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and backed by a bank of nettles!
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Watch this space. By the end of August it will look better.

I think it looks fine the way it is!

[Chestnut]

Seeing as there's not much of August left, may I make a slight variation on the theme, just this once?
I have in mind 2 barely started projects, aiming to complete both by the end of September

First is to fill all the glass preserving jars we received as a wedding gift with home made and at least partially home grown produce (our onions got white rot, and chutneys without onions are just not the same.....)

Second is to get spring cabbages in the ground. I have sketched the plan for the brassica cages and purchased the netting, but not yet sown the seeds, dug the ground or acquired the timber!

[Penellype]

Second is to get spring cabbages in the ground. I have sketched the plan for the brassica cages and purchased the netting, but not yet sown the seeds, dug the ground or acquired the timber!
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Sow the seeds in pots indoors to get them started rather than waiting until your brassica cage is ready.

[Chestnut]

Good thinking Penellype
I have now sown a modular tray full of cabbage seeds, which are now busy germinating in the kitchen!

One thing that I have learned this year is always to sow twice as many as I think I will need, so that I can still get a decent harvest even if a few mishaps along the way

[Jimmy]

Well I did one of my outstanding jobs.
I got a Wilko wheel barrow a year or two ago. Very impressive with a "Epoxy coated for rust resistance".
But only the bucket is coated.
Where the frame bolts on to the bucket there are some welded joints, these have started to rust.
So dismantled it and wire brushed and red leaded them.
I might tie wrap some lengths of old bike tire to the feet to stop them wearing our on the floor.
One down, infinite number to go.
Jimmy

[vixylix]

hahahahahahaha my entire garden is one big project - we have set ourselves until the end of Sept to get it finished, which ties in nicely!

We have 4 beds dug, 2 to go - sadly they are the biggest and most difficult two - entirely full of tree stumps and tree roots! Wish us luck

[Jimmy]

entirely full of tree stumps and tree roots! Wish us luck

See
Tree Stump Removal
Jimmy

[Chestnut]

Good luck Vixylix! Look forward to seeing the before and after photos ;-)

[rary]

Great thread, but wouldn't know where to start, possibly the garage or the hut or the potting shed (well that what it will be if I clean it out) or the wood storage or the greenhouse or the back garden or...

[veggiechicken]

Choose one, rary, and go for it! Since you're a late starter (and old) you have until the end of September to complete your project.

[rary]

Choose one, rary, and go for it! Since you're a late starter (and old)

I resemble that remark

[Small pumpkin]

I've done a bit more



It looks very hill billy! But it's for chickens and it does the job.

Inside




Entrance ( tunnel to hopefully stop pigeons getting to all the food)



It's been up 3 days and chickens are using it already.
Still have to finish strimming and put stone down in really soggy areas.

[veggiechicken]

Last day of August tomorrow.
Don't forget to show us what your "completed" project looks like - and what your September Project will be.

[vixylix]

I can't believe its September tomorrow - where has this year gone?!

[veggiechicken]

First & Second Gaps are now passable

Before & After





There was a fence behind the smiley tree stump. I've removed some of it but there is more to dig out. Had to pull out the nettles before I could reach it Still some way to go with this area but I'm happy that I've done more than I set out to do.



Roll on September

Right, I've shown you mine, now show me yours