New raised bed in my garden

[mark smyth]

Good to know.

Yet another hold up due to rain and more rain

[mark smyth]

During a break in the rain I managed to get 8 bags of leaf mould spread over the bed. 8 bags didnt go far.

I then went to three garden centres today to buy horticultural sand to did in at the same time. None was available

[Lesley Cox]

So many ingredients in this new bed Mark, you have only to add cherries and some almonds and put it in a tin for Christmas cake. Good timing too.

[Anthony Darby]

Cherries should be OK, but a bit far north for almonds?

[Lesley Cox]

Cherries should be OK, but a bit far north for almonds?

He can buy a couple of packets.
Central Otago cherries at the market this coming Saturday!

[razvan chisu]

Good to know.

Yet another hold up due to rain and more rain

I'm green with ENVY

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Looking great Mark !! 
All your hard work should pay off in the end !!  Your bulbs should grow like weeds !     or maybe that's not a well chosen expression in this case... 

[angie]

Mark it's going to be worth all the hard work and something for us all to look forward to in spring.
Hope you get some dry weather to let you finish. Thanks for sharing, it's always nice to see what others are doing gives you good ideas.

Angie 

[mark smyth]

Thanks you three. It'll be a year before I get it filled. Looking forward to that special catalogue arriving soon.

Two more delays and the weather was great. I had to go to work

[Paul T]

Damn work.  The nerve of it, getting in the way of a good garden building!! 

 

[mark smyth]

Happy to be working even if it gets in the way of my plans

I'm off and it's trying to snow grrrr

[mark smyth]

I cant remember when it last rained on my garden. My new bed is drying nicely. Today I planted lots of Galanthus, Tulips and Crocus. The bed is too small.

[Lesley Cox]

Well that was inevitable Mark. Any such new garden is too small. As soon as the planting starts so many things call out to go there. You'll have to build another.....and another.

[mark smyth]

No room now Lesley. My garden has a rockery, 9 raised beds and a peat bed. One bed can be extending to give about 30cm along it's edge.

I could get rid of the 12x8 greenhouse which would give me an area approx 10 x 14 feet 3 x 4m including the base

[Maggi Young]

One bed can be extending to give about 30cm along it's edge.

Beware of adding too much to existing beds, Mark. It is tempting to grab every inch but there may come a time when you realise that that is not practical from the point of view of leaving enough room for wheelbarrows, general work space, or  even visitors .