Warrior

In a warrior-esque effort late this afternoon I annihilated the cubby house. A structure that Tanya referred to only minutes before I started as a ‘rather well made cubby’; after two hours of crow-barring, hammering, pulling, kicking and wrenching I’d removed the side panels, pushed the corrugated iron roof off like a lid and forced each wall of the frame apart and managed to drag it all under the house just as the Sun set at 6pm.

The floor of the cubby was made up of flat-surfaced pallets (plywood or similar). These are incredible wet and soggy, the blue plastic that they lined the underneath of the cubby with seems to have acted as a pool to hold the water in rather than a liner to keep it out. I’m going to have to get rid of these if I cannot figure out a use for them; they’re in really bad condition.

So – now we have wood for garden walls and other similar projects! I’m not sure whether the wood is treated or not so I’m going to line any parts of it that would otherwise touch soil with a thick black plastic that I also found half-buried just near the cubby.

Not sure what to do with the metal roof sheets yet either, I will have more of these to pull off in the future from the gardening shed when I turn it into a light/greenhouse. I’m sure I’ll find a home for them.

I’m thinking that tiered no-dig-gardens/square-foot-gardens are going to work best for the layout I’m after for the veggie patches in the backyard and by the clothes hoist. I’m getting excited and wish I didn’t have to work all week!