Veg bed update

As we are still battling with the wind and rain there has been no chance of us topping the large conifers behind the big poly tunnel. It is also preventing us checking on the bees. Let’s hope the wind will finally drop tomorrow.

The weather has meant that we can crack on with building the new raised veg beds . There are fifteen veg beds in total, two of which we built and filled before the winter. Over the last week we have managed to build another seven , leaving six left to go.

We have also been busy with the wheel barrow and spade battling our way through the compost bays. It feel great to have finally finished emptying the first compost bay only for it to start getting filled again within 5 minutes with the chicken bedding. Hey ho, it will produce me lovely compost for a couple of years from now. We have started on compost bay two but this one is so much fuller, We may be some time.

The best part was when we got the first bed filled (the one that looked like a pond) I was finally able to get my garlic planted. It would have been floating if I had tried it before so I had to start it in modules. So that is officially my first outdoor veg planting of the year. Hooray, the season begins.