The last few weeks have been busy, busy, busy around here. We've been busy emptying the old raised beds, moving those that could be re-used for another season, and then building several new beds - all to give us more room in the vegetable garden. This photo shows the project in process - total chaos! If you look carefully, you'll see the blue binder twine that marked out the locations of the new beds. Note, too, that under the beds (over to the right there's one that's partially finished) we've put down layers of cardboard and newspaper and, over that, heavy duty landscape cloth.
What is astonishing is how much dirt one needs to fill said beds!
Times like this I am very, very glad I have a big farm truck. Not only does it handle huge loads of dirt with ease, the 4WD and dually wheels mean I can get the load up the slippery hill and backed reasonably close to the garden! From there, it's a relatively easy trundle with the muck bucket up through the orchard an into the garden.
After having lugged many, many buckets o' muck up the hill, here's the result... well, most of the result -there are several beds over to the left that I couldn't quite squeeze into the photo.
There's still a little room for expansion, but this will see us through this year's growing season.
The paths between the beds will eventually be covered with gravel, but that will require another trip (or three!) to Trio Gravel Mart and then a whole lot more schlepping, so for the moment, I'm living with the austere flavour of the landscape cloth.
This is one of the spud beds - (in fact, the very beds you can't see in the photo above) - to accommodate the ten varieties of potatoes we're experimenting with. Each box in the grid contains a different variety. Dad has already declared that there is no way he will ever eat a BLUE!! potato. We shall see.
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