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An early spring update!
Well I finally dug up the old veg patches and moved them to their new spot on the other side of the garden. The two I had were three boards (360mm) high so I've chopped the top board off and made three beds from the initial two. Had some left over timber behind the shed so I've put together a fourth. This will give me double the amount of space to grow this year, 96 square feet
It's amazing how much soil and compost you need to fill a bed. For four 6x4 beds, it takes about 2000 litres to fill, which is about 3 tonnes :O I had quite a lot of soil and compost to bring over from the old beds, but I had a few trips to the shop to buy more. They're not quite full enough yet, so I'll need to pick up another 16 bags (600kg or so) to raise them up a bit. I'd love to have shallower beds and use the soil beneath them, but it's all sticky clay and is full of stones, rubble and even toys (I found a Lego crocodile at the weekend).
The blueberry plants are in their pots now, and one is happily growing away. The potatoes are in the kitchen being chitted, so I'll put them in the bags in the next week or two. This weekend I'll hopefully sow the early vegetables. I also need to put a proper gate down the side of the chicken run as one of the chickens keeps escaping past the bags that are down the side (it's always Kip, the noisy one), and I find her just wandering around the garden lol.
This year I'm planning on growing the following in the raised beds:
Onions
Carrots
Parsnip
Tomatoes
French beans
Broccoli
Cabbage (mainly for the chickens to eat)
Winter squash (not sure which variety yet)
Chillies
Bell peppers
Beetroot
Sweetcorn (and loads of it)
Peas
Swiss chard
Brussel sprouts
Plus potatoes in bags, blueberries in pots, and a selection of herbs in free spots around the garden.
At the weekend we ate our first crown prince squash from last year (as seen in this post). It's amazing how much squash you get from one squash We had squash curry at the weekend and squash risotto last night (which was lush) and we've only used a quarter of one squash :O The rest is in the freezer, and the other whole squash is still sat happily on the kitchen table.
I'll try and take some photos at the weekend, as this is meant to be a photography project not a gardening project
Well I finally dug up the old veg patches and moved them to their new spot on the other side of the garden. The two I had were three boards (360mm) high so I've chopped the top board off and made three beds from the initial two. Had some left over timber behind the shed so I've put together a fourth. This will give me double the amount of space to grow this year, 96 square feet
It's amazing how much soil and compost you need to fill a bed. For four 6x4 beds, it takes about 2000 litres to fill, which is about 3 tonnes :O I had quite a lot of soil and compost to bring over from the old beds, but I had a few trips to the shop to buy more. They're not quite full enough yet, so I'll need to pick up another 16 bags (600kg or so) to raise them up a bit. I'd love to have shallower beds and use the soil beneath them, but it's all sticky clay and is full of stones, rubble and even toys (I found a Lego crocodile at the weekend).
The blueberry plants are in their pots now, and one is happily growing away. The potatoes are in the kitchen being chitted, so I'll put them in the bags in the next week or two. This weekend I'll hopefully sow the early vegetables. I also need to put a proper gate down the side of the chicken run as one of the chickens keeps escaping past the bags that are down the side (it's always Kip, the noisy one), and I find her just wandering around the garden lol.
This year I'm planning on growing the following in the raised beds:
Onions
Carrots
Parsnip
Tomatoes
French beans
Broccoli
Cabbage (mainly for the chickens to eat)
Winter squash (not sure which variety yet)
Chillies
Bell peppers
Beetroot
Sweetcorn (and loads of it)
Peas
Swiss chard
Brussel sprouts
Plus potatoes in bags, blueberries in pots, and a selection of herbs in free spots around the garden.
At the weekend we ate our first crown prince squash from last year (as seen in this post). It's amazing how much squash you get from one squash We had squash curry at the weekend and squash risotto last night (which was lush) and we've only used a quarter of one squash :O The rest is in the freezer, and the other whole squash is still sat happily on the kitchen table.
I'll try and take some photos at the weekend, as this is meant to be a photography project not a gardening project