The 30 Day plan explained!

[veggiechicken]

Bed 17

Not a good day for gardening - damp, drizzly and windy - that's my excuse for not doing a perfect job on Bed 17

Its about 10' x8' narrowing to 6'.
Has a small apple tree, a hazel stump, periwinkle and clumps of dog daisies, geraniums and bluebells. That's the good news, The bad is bramble, briars, ash, holly & hawthorn seedlings, raspberries, buttercups and various tap-rooted weeds. I've dug out most of these but rain stopped play several times.
Before & after.



I've planted 18 Allium Christophii in the middle, Apple mint in one corner and scattered Quick and Easy annuals (cornflower, escholzia, candytuft & larkspur) and Giant Quaking grass over the lot!

Hope the chooks prefer the Quaking Grass to the chard

[veggiechicken]

It rained all day so I couldn't work on bed 18 . Tomorrow, weather permitting, I'll do 18 and 19

[Jay-ell]

Sorry VC just catching this thread, but still no pics,how about naming them after Grapes, you should look at each bed and think, what grape would fit in here, or which grape would this remind me of.

So who's the manure pile going to be?
(VC can you add a poll to this?)

It rained all day so I couldn't work on bed 18 . Tomorrow, weather permitting, I'll do 18 and 19

So already the elements conspire against you.

[veggiechicken]

So who's the manure pile going to be?
(VC can you add a poll to this?)

Discretion is the better part of valour



So already the elements conspire against you.

Its all part of the plan - tomorrow 2 plots. Fortunately 18 isn't too bad - 5 small fruit trees and some odds and ends. However, 19 has 2 small apple trees and some random, self seeded leeks. that'll be a bit more fiddly!
In 18 I'll be planting ranunculus (sounds like an old uncle) and sowing rudbeckia.
19 is undecided so far.

[veggiechicken]

April 1st - its no joke!

Bed 1 - one of the smallest beds, so I enlarged it a bit to 4' x 9' Its alongside the chicken run and has a plum tree, mint and too much montbretia.

March 1st & April 1st



The plum is flowering

Planted 6 Allium Mount Everest and 40 Allium Sphaerocephalum, 6 Achillea millefolium "Cassis" and 6 Aquilegia "Swan Mix".

Eyed up the fencing around the chicken run for beans

[veggiechicken]

April 3rd - should have been the 2nd

Plot 2 is a Berry bed

Jostaberries, black and red currants and raspberries, tangled together. Beneath them a carpet of brambles, nettles, ivy, wood avens, hedge woundwort and pink campion to be removed. White comfrey and bluebells to remain. The bed is about 15' x 10' and I wanted to create a path through the centre as the bushes had grown together too much to get into the middle for picking. Done!!

Before (March) and today.



Hope to catch up with Beds 3 and 4 tomorrow!

[Jay-ell]

A path, a path, a path

Does the bed have a 2 tier effect?


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[veggiechicken]

You've lost me?

[Jay-ell]

You've lost me?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69iB-xy0u4A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZvsGdJP3ng

[veggiechicken]

Here we go again!

After 2 years, rejigging beds, I have finally numbered the 30 beds.
There have been lots of changes since I started this crazy scheme, several beds have been merged, paths abolished, overgrown areas cleared and new beds created.
More fruit trees have been planted and there are still more to go in, somewhere!
Today, I measured every bed and I'm going to record the planting in each. Not sure whether this will be a paper record, a blog or just boring you on here.
Tomorrow, weather permitting, I'll photograph each plot, with its number, then I'll know at a glance, where I should be working each day. Plot 20 tomorrow.

Same original plan - every bed to contain:-

a fruit tree or bush,
something edible/veg
a herb
flowers for bees
a plant beginning with the matching letter of the alphabet, Plot 1 = A ...........Plot 20 = T

Most of them have these now - those that don't need some additions.

[JanieB]

30, ....30 beds! How big is your garden?

[Jimny14]

Have you ever seen what most people think is a park behind Cardiff Castle Janie?

[veggiechicken]

About half an acre! These are in the middle of the garden, beyond the chicken run and before the polytunnels.

[veggiechicken]

Bed 21



This is Bed 21 - a bed of 2 halves. Overall, about 28' x 12'. There's a young mulberry in the middle of it. The closest half has garlic, spring onions and onion sets, planted last year, that I'm leaving in to see what happens next. (Experiment )

The further half has been full of chard and asparagus kale which has all died back now. Whether it will reseed itself, only time will tell. Its the chicken's favourite bed - they always make a beeline for it, to see what they can eat.

Today, I decided to create another chook feeding bed - at Number 22, which is alongside their run.

This is Bed 22



Totally overgrown with Vinca! Nice in moderation but, there's a limit! Somewhere in there is a small oak tree, forsythia, fuchsia and gooseberries. Also my neighbour's fence.

Started to dig up the Vinca today, more tomorrow. Then I'll be sowing it with chard, odd kales, amaranth and any grains I can find. Hopefully, the chooks will find it more convenient to hop next door to bed 22 than heading down the garden, and I can grow summat there that I want to eat.

Its been a good day - as I actually have a plan for a change.

[veggiechicken]

Alphabetical seed sowing starts here

I have my envelopes of seeds in my grubby little hands.
Day 1/Bed 1 A will be sown tomorrow 1st April.

Getting excited!! (That's me - I don't expect you to be)

This thread https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...res_96127.html has your suggestions for what to grow for each letter of the alphabet - apart from the difficult ones like X