A vegetable garden update!
Over the last couple of weekends I've been working a bit more on the vegetable garden which is at the top of the garden.
Apologies for re-posting old photos but this is what it looked like when I moved in 8 years ago. Feel free to skip over this post!
My main focus was originally sorting out the rest of the garden first as it was all overgrown!
When I got to "ground" level on the top bit I realised that much of it had been built up with spoil from elsewhere in the garden and from when the extension had been built. I dug out the bit in front of the wooden shed but stopped there.
As a temporary measure I levelled off the area in front of the green shed and covered it with paving slabs which had also been dumped there. You can see some of them stacked on the right of the first photo above.
Still a work in progress but just a bit tidier...
The wooden shed on the left was beyond hope so I took it down and moved the green metal one to take its place. I put a trellis up in front for some tayberries. The rhubarb in front seems to like it there.
Having moved the metal shed I set about re-using some brick pavers for a new path and adding another new deep raised bed to the other side. I also began lifting the paving slabs, digging out the chalk spoil and creating a new vegetable bed.
Another year on and I lifted a few more paving slabs, removed some chalk spoil and extended the new vegetable bed.
The tayberries are beginning to fill up the trellis and the raspberries in the bed behind the deep raised bed are getting established.
And, now I've finally lifted all the "temporary" paving slabs, cleared out the remaining chalk and rubble spoil and filled with soil. I now have a Hippo Megbag full with about a tonne & half of chalk and rubble!
Next up... growing more vegetables!
And, possibly cutting the grass!
willow weave. Should keep me busy for a while!
