The exciting news this week is that Mr L has been given the plot next door to mine; not that he'll ever go up there so it's all mine 😃 The plot hasn't been worked for at least 2 years and all the last plot holder did to it was remove all the weed membrane so it's just really overgrown. I know that the tenant before last put compost onto the now very overgrown beds and I know that there were some small fruit trees that have been removed and left some holes.
I have decided that rather than trying to fit things in around the few beds that are already there I'm going to remove them all and use the compost from the existing beds in them to fill the holes around the plot before I cover the whole lot in membrane. That will then give me the space to plan what I want to do with it before I start building beds. I have a greenhouse at home that I'm probably going to take up there so I'll need to decide where to put that. I'm also planning to remove the pallets that were put up at the side to make a fence and replace with chicken wire (in fact I might remove the whole fence down that side and re-do it).
My job today was to strim the plot. I wanted to get it all cut back so that I could see what was going on. As you can see, now that it's been strimmed there is still lots to do. I need to trim the hedges and in the top right corner of this picture there is a gap in the hedge so I'm going to have to put some chicken wire there to secure it as well.
I am so excited to be able to expand. I want to have a bigger strawberry bed and I want to have an asparagus bed, other than that it will just be more of the same. I had some success with onion and potatoes this year so I'm hoping that more space will mean I can grow more and think about how I'm going to use my produce better.
Happy gardening everyone x
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