• Have finally got round to creating raised veg beds but using some of Charles Dowding’s no dig principles.

    From building work I had some used shutter ply sheets and left over timber so made two frames.

    Lined the bottoms with cardboard - was meant to take to recycling before lockdown but never did.

    Had left over top soil so 3/4 filled the beds with topsoil and then covered with cardboard. Next was a mixture of household compost and leaf much, and the last in or so covered with mushroom compost from a local mushroom cultivator.

    One bed planted with seeds, the other with seedlings from a local garden centre and from seedlings donated by neighbours.

    Frame for taller plants from hazel i coppiced yesterday.


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