20th January

After the serious van problem, we have at long last got it sorted, and it will be back out delivering this week.

At the end of last year, you might remember I build a shed with pallets and willow trees.

It turned into a very big shed, and we have all our fleece for the year stored inside it.

It was only supposed to be for the fleece, I am not that keen on the fleece lying outside on the reels through the winter.

But the shed grew in size as I was building it.

Along with the fleece I have also got the Carrot sowing machine, the beetroot/neep sowing machine, the fleece machine and a burner for the field we had bought.

So, I have got a lot more in the shed than I had originally anticipated.

We still have a load of pallets lying around, so I though we need to build a tunnel.

But it will not be a tunnel for planting in, just for bringing the seeds on.

At the moment we have a wee six-foot greenhouse with a heater in it, this has four sets of shelves, and we can bring on any seeds that cannot stand cold weather.

We also have a small tunnel which is sixty feet long and 12 feet wide.

Inside I made two rows of raised shelves at each side of the tunnel.

This helps prevent the mice from eating the seeds, plus with the tunnel being smaller it heats up quicker and hold the heat longer, once they have germinated, we then move them over to the big tunnels.

In this wee tunnel we can bring on just under forty thousand plants.

But we have been needing a bit more room.

So here comes the pallets.

I have one pallet high to make the sides of the tunnel, it is two pallets wide and twelve pallets long which makes it 48 feet long and 6 feet wide, the front is another pallet in hight, but with all the wooden spars off, to let the sun in,

The back is half a pallet high again with all the middle spars of.

This will give a lean-to roof, which I will sheet with polythene over the roof and down over the pallets creating a tunnel.

Inside against the back we will make a bench with pallets again, this will run the full length which will give us room for another sixteen thousand seeds.

The ends, front and back are finished.

Just the roof truces to go on, and the polythene.

We will use the polythene from tunnel five, this tunnel has had a few repairs over the winter.

And will need some framework repairs, door end repairs and new polythene.

So, a soon as I take the polythene of it will go straight onto the pallet greenhouse.

Giving us a nice big propagation shed/tunnel which cost just time and a couple of hundred screws.