<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/repaired-raised-bedfeb20.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-6077" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/repaired-raised-bedfeb20-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="180" /></a>This weekend I've had another woodworking experience. The raised bed that started to fall apart when I removed the Himalayan Honeysuckle needed to be repaired so I purchased some 200mm screw bolts and screwed them into the ends. This wasn't as easy as it sounds, these jobs never are. In places the wood was too hard to get the screw through and in other parts it was too rotten for the screw to hold. I eventually managed to get the sleepers together and aligned enough to put the soil back into it ready for planting out in the spring. The rotting sleepers will probably last another couple of years which is a shame because I thought they would easily survive 20 years. I think the builders used cheap wood.

With Sunday being one of the windiest, wildest days I've experienced for a long time I decided to spend the afternoon in the workshop constructing frames for my second beehive. It was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be and before too long (2 hours) I had ten frames made, ready to go into hive 2 for when hive 1 is ready to swarm.

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