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This is a great tip, I'm in the same boat, have a big bed and no clue what to do. Soil wise what did you do, Top soil, compost? Are you going to mulch to stop weeds? I've got no clue haha.
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Top soil with some compost dug in. Then add compost when you plant into it. As well as suppressing weeds mulch helps with water retention
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They already had what seemed to be reasonable soil in them (lots of worms in there) so I just dug through a few bags of compost and removed the bigger stones. Making sure it was well dug over made the planting a lot easier.
The beds had been relatively weedless previously so not bothered with mulching.
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Got bored of trying to decide what to get for the garden beds so got plants from these https://www.digclub.co.uk/ for the two beds in shade (the one that gets full sun by the wall on the right we're keeping child gardening friendly with some tomatoes, sunflowers, etc). They send you the plants plus a plan for where they recommend it being planted in the bed.
Seems to be a decent variety of stuff and prices didn't seem outrageous compared to getting a load of plants from the garden centre. Will just have to see how it now. The guy reckoned that it should look OK this year but next year will be when it really starts to look good.
All the plants on the left and back came from them (we emptied the beds) so a good chance to see how it works.