Someone asked for an update on how the wall planner was looking so here it is, wonderfully adorned with garden bird sketches by various visitors.Then curvy beds now have letters! If anyone can think of curvy names instead please do. So that we have a record of what the soil is like I'm afraid I'm going to get technical.
Beds a and b were the first to be double dug (double diggers all). Bed a has a very thick orange clay subsoil and was a horrible dig. Bed a also has a very thick concrete path 8 inches down and on the extreme left of the bed. This path clips the extreme right of bed c. Beds a and b are fully double dug and maured.
Bed c is a bed of 2 halves. The right hand half dug relatively easily, even the clay broke up fairly well as it appears to be fairly sandy as well! The left hand half was a much more difficult and blistering experience as household and garden refuse formed the first 6 inches of the soil. Bricks, old tools, wire etc. Bed c has finished its double digging today and now needs manuring.Beds d and e share an alignment with what look
s like and old ditch which shows up very clearly after rainfall. The soggy line of standing water that appears lines up perfectly with the hedged boundary beyond and is presumably the remnant of an old field boundary. These beds are not dug as yet and should be interesting digging once we get to them.Bed f is a figment of our imagination at the moment and only exists on the wall. The plan was to make herb bed, but it looks like it might just be too soggy, re: old ditch.
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