Garden Pallet Bench Almost Done; Seedling Improvement.

Well, its not 'Yes We Can!' shouted out of a megaphone but I no longer feel like 'I can't, I can't,' sobbed into a tissue. The garden bench out of pallets and a bit of fence is actually coming along all right, although it's a bit of a botch job honestly. I can't work out how I'm supposed to completely fix the back into its angled position, well, without some highly complicated woodwork and carpentry to do it (I am reluctant). It slots in pretty well, and I think its probably going to be ok. I'll find out soon enough, anyway. So, I need to fix slats into the gaps of the slats. (The gaps are not the same width apart all the way along. On a pallet! What?) and when I've done that I need to wash it down and sand it and I'll have a bench. I would have done all of this today had the rain not been so bloody wet. I'm happy to do a lot in the bad weather, but I can't feel any urgency for jobs like that, so best to get in with indoor jobs on days like today.
The seedlings are doing a lot better sense they've gone into the incubator again. Still no news on the runner beans, or lavender but I'm starting to see secondary leaves on almost everything now. After reading an article in a magazine today, I think I'm going to put some runner beans out as plants and some as seeds. Not only will it not matter if I don't have all the seedlings up, but I can use it as succession sowing and try and stretch out the season a bit.

Lavender Plug Plants

 Also, I decided to buy some Lavender plug plants, simply because, well to be honest, I really want some lavender on my plot. At £9 for 10 plug plants, it feels like a real extravagance, especially compared to the price of seeds, but these seeds don't seem to be working out very well for me, and I think I need to get them established in the summertime. Anyway, I was pretty delighted when they arrived in the post. All I need to do now is build some planters for them. Plenty of wood left for that.

So I'm fairly certain its going to rain this weekend, naturally, but until the seedlings grow on a bit, there is not a great deal I can do at the plot apart from the bench. I also need to move my compost bins which is going to be so, so awful I've been blocking it out. In one bin, (the naughty bin) I have a load of perennial weeds that don't seem to have broken down at all, and is very heavy and scratchy and full of slugs and ants, (and appears to be sprouting bindweed, which I'm ignoring) and in the other (the good bin) is loads of imperfectly rotted household waste. It smells. I hope there aren't any rats living in it. But the bins have to be moved sometime because they are messing with the flow of the plot and are going to inhibit me from utilising perfectly good space or beds and access in the end. Time to suck it up. Figuratively.