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As its blowing a hoolie and lashing down with rain here are a few pics from our plot, from the earliest bleak days of bare ground in February to the end of the first summer.
What little soil there was has been scraped off during the build or washed away down the hill afterwards. What is left is just clay and boulders. Nice.
As we are on a slope there is backfill at the front so we marked out the veg garden to go here. The beds are 6X1.5m (too wide for me to be able to easily reach the middle) with .5m paths between (too narrow for me not to fall off with the wheelbarrow from time to time).
Each one was turned once, the boulders and solid clay removed. This one looks deceptively nice! Then each one got a good layer of muck, except the parsnip patch which got horrid cheapo compost.
But the plot fed us quite well through the summer and as we headed for our first autumn we had plenty of cabbages and leeks. I'm amazed at how much grew in the first year considering there really was no soil!
What little soil there was has been scraped off during the build or washed away down the hill afterwards. What is left is just clay and boulders. Nice.
As we are on a slope there is backfill at the front so we marked out the veg garden to go here. The beds are 6X1.5m (too wide for me to be able to easily reach the middle) with .5m paths between (too narrow for me not to fall off with the wheelbarrow from time to time).
Each one was turned once, the boulders and solid clay removed. This one looks deceptively nice! Then each one got a good layer of muck, except the parsnip patch which got horrid cheapo compost.
But the plot fed us quite well through the summer and as we headed for our first autumn we had plenty of cabbages and leeks. I'm amazed at how much grew in the first year considering there really was no soil!
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