Vegetable Garden
Posted By Judith on 12th August 2017
It’s always the same, in life or in D.I.Y, you think you’ve got everything straight then you stop and look around and there’s always one more job waiting for you to do. Here at ‘Grassy Bottom’ there are plenty of jobs still to do inside, but outside the one remaining ‘biggy’ has been the vegetable garden.
For the first 12 months it was used as a dumping ground, anything from bathroom debris to hedge trimmings.
I did manage to grow a few broad beans in 2015 and then in 2016 the garden work began and the area for the vegetable garden proper began to take shape.
I’m afraid that’s as far as it went last year because we both ran out of steam, and it remained unused and unloved for the rest of the year, but in 2017 I was hoping to do better.
It’s been quite a task to get the area level as it’s on a slope in 2 directions and as regular readers will know I find doing ‘levels’ and ‘angles’ very challenging and I simply can’t think in 3-D.
I thought doing the vegetable beds at Ravendale House were difficult and they were on completely flat ground!
Anyway this is what the area looked like when we’d completed stage1 leveling back in April.
At the beginning of May the slabs were delivered and I began to lay out the paths.
Don’t be fooled by the ‘green bits’, with the exception of the far end which is planted with strawberries, the rest are weeds.
Sadly, subsequent photos of slab progress and the planting of Broad Beans, Peas and Sweetcorn, were lost when my computer died in July.
So fast forward to the middle of August.
As you can probably see the weeds are ever present and the peas have been a disaster. The Broad Beans are doing OK, as is the corn, but I fear we might run out of summer before the cobs are fully formed.
The truth is I was a bit late getting things planted because the slab laying took longer than expected, but hopefully next year – – – – !!
