My Garden

The snow has gone at last, thank goodness, so work continues apace on the raised bed building in the new productive area. Once beds are drilled and screwed together, the fun bit of lining them up on the ground to fit the design begins - not always as straightforward as it sounds, especially on a site... Read more..

Very busy times in the garden now and the warm and dry weather has meant great progress in the new kitchen garden. Most of the soil preparation is complete, to the relief of all the gardeners involved (some were beginning to get overload - see picture), with the mushroom compost, manure, composted bark... Read more..

After three weeks of sowing a wide range of things at home in the raised beds, hardly anything had germinated – apart from two poor rows of radish! So I decided to delve deeper and see if there was a bigger problem than just the cold weather. And I’m glad I did. Two things became apparent. The soil had... Read more..