Three more tons
A good bit of progress in the past week. With help from Conor (Thanks!) we took delivery of more wood and built three of the 2.4m x 1.2m beds. Next step was to get three tons of soil to fill those beds. The guy drove it right up, held the bag over the bed, we cut it open and it just poured in. A minimum of shoveling, brilliant !
The plot is now as below. (Our section is bordered by the potato bed. The unkempt weedy plot does not belong to us!)
The bed Sinead is watering has our dwarf peas, onions and runner beans. The onion went down a bit late, but what the hell, may as well risk it for a biscuit. The other bed over to the right has sweetcorn we grew at home, beetroot and parsnips. The far bed, on the left at the front, has pumpkin, borage, spinach and courgettes.
Some more photos:
From top left, dwarf pea seeds. They are fat little things. The rocket is to the right, covered in netting. It’s doing great, we picked some and will have it with dinner today. The next bed is the sweetcorn one. We had to put on a temporary cover as the birds are rampant. When the sweetcorn starts to grow we’ll have to build a higher netted enclosure for them. Then we have the potatos which are doing really great. We mound up the dirt over them every week or so.
Next step is probably more building, need to sort out the netting for the taller beds, the beans, peas and sweetcorn. Don’t think there’s much time left for more planting!
