Sunday, May 9, 2010

Garden tidy-up with a bonus

For a while I have been meaning to spend some time tidying up my vegetable garden - for one reason or another it hasn't happened - until today! I managed to sort out all four of my raised beds. I was considering taking before and after shots but, to be honest, I was far too ashamed of how overgrown they had got so you will have to be content with the after shots - oh, and some photos of the bonus harvest of the day. :)

So here are the photos of the beds after I was finished. I was very surprised at how dry some of them were - usually at this time of the year we would have had a fair bit of rain but it has been drier and warmer than usual.


I know they look a little bare right now. I am never sure what to try grow through our winter as we get quite hard frosts so most things don't survive. Maybe I will just leave them empty until spring. The next couple of photos are the bounty from my weeding session. Would anybody like some potatoes?


Mmmm, pumpkin soup. :)

3 comments:

  1. Lovely looking potatoes; and an impressive yield of pumpkin soup.

    You could always grow lupins* in the beds over winter, then just dig them in to add to the soil nutrients.

    *seeds often available in large bags and at a good price at garden centres, my dear Dad uses them to replenish nitrogen in the soil.

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  2. Well done! That was fun to see as we just prepared our garden yesterday for planting.

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  3. Peastraw! it's wonderful, and will revolutionise your gardening experience. Don't buy those bags of Peastraw mix they try to flog you in garden centres though get a real bale from somewhere - you almost live in the country ;-)

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