Tatnam Organic Patch

As a sailor, I watch the forecast by habit. The garden has been crying out for rain, and despite our ‘water very sparingly’ policy, the waterbutts, which are all connected together underground, running very dry.

So having a good rain today as the forecasters had predicted is very good, and even more so as I connected in our new big IBC water tank (1000 litres capacity) on Friday. This takes rainwater off the shed, and feeds all of the rest of the low level butts around the garden.

Just need to decide when is the best time to go and get wet checking it is all filling as expected.

Of course this renders my calculations of our overall capacity out of date, the water system is described here http://tatnampatch.org.uk/?page_id=54. Perhaps I should take the opportunity on a rainy day to updated it, but Wimborne Folk Festival is calling. There’s always winter !

Andy

As part of the workday on 15th August 2009, we set up a base to contain the fires we have (either for excess woody waste when dealing with Bramble pruning annually, for the November Bonfire meetings, and perhaps for cooking over an open fire at some of the workdays).

The old pavement risers that we had previously reclaimed and used as the base of the first greenhouse on site now have a new lease of life, as the surrounds to the Firepit.

Garry checking angles on the firepit, well supervised

After approximate measurements, and much digging of memories for far distant geometry  lessons searching for the dimensions of a perfect octagon,  Andy popped home to get the Ancient Egyptian technology, and progress got much faster.

Gary and Brendan Judging Firepit Levels

Firepit nearly complete