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Got down the #allotment and caught some of today's rare sunshine... next key infrastructure project is now well underway. New corner posts going in at either end of the border with our new neighbour (not met them yet, they've "broken ground" amongst their weeds though!)

This will just be a basic mesh fence, buried about 300mm into the ground. I like to put in big chunky braced corner posts and then run strainer wires to as the key structure for the fence, we then just put light stakes in down the fence line to staple to and these are easy to replace when they rot out.

I tamp the earth down as tight as I can with the end of a sledgehammer and hopefully that holds them well enough. I generally try to avoid large lumps of concrete on the allotment! Especially having just pulled one out of the front fence post hole. It was huge! More than a standard modern concrete/postcrete bag. Stupid massive lump of concrete with a 75mm2 post in it rotted out at the bottom. Stupidity.