A busy day on the smallholding veg plot:
Then I went weeding and forking over the raised beds made from planks, old tractor tyres, fish boxes, plastic baths and old heating oil tanks.
Old Ford 3000 tractor tyres.
I finished my gardening at 3 o'clock this afternoon. It had just begun to rain. I counted 45 raised beds including the fish boxes and tyres planters.
Apart from moving a lot of perennials in the polytunnel and taking up the black plastic tarpaulin and digging it over for new potatoes and adding seaweed and fym. That's my winter veg work done and ready for the planting season.
Are your beds and veg plot ready for planting?
My goodness, Dave. That's a lot of hard work done there.
ReplyDeleteTime for a beer . or two?
Dry weather makes a big difference JayCee. Getting it ready before the rain. We bought a bag of Snowball onion sets today from Lidl.
ReplyDeleteWhen you ask things like "Are your beds and veg plot ready for planting?" it makes me feel bad about myself because I haven't done a sausage. Potentially, your line of questioning could lead me to self-harming or suicide. Not all of us are oxen Dave!
ReplyDeleteNot all of us live next to a city YP with so much to do. I would go mad living in the countryside next to the sea without my walking, gardening and livestock to see to. It's great to see the ground already for the planting season.
ReplyDeleteCompared to yours my plot is tiny, so much easier to keep on top of task. It a case of waiting, I have a fraught history with sowing seeds too early, struggling with the cold when needing to plant, so this year I wait.
ReplyDeleteIf you sow indoora now you will have strong plants to plant out in late March Marlene. I must tidy out the box room to make my veg sowing and potato chitting room. I will start my onion sets off in plastic modules filled with compost and they will be strong with white root socks when I plant them out. They much prefer being started in doors in the warmth and in compost rsther than being pushed into the wet and cold ground.
ReplyDeleteI admire your love of raised beds Dave. The difference between you garden and mine is rain. You get some (lots I guess). We on the other hand don't get much and have no other water source we can draw from, so my plants need to have their roots deep in the soil. Raised beds dry out too much in our heat.
ReplyDeleteI grew in the ground for years TM. When I lived in England I would dig the soil rough in Autumn for the frost and heavy rains to break down the clouds. Ireland is a much milder climate but Cork and Kerry are the two wettest counties. Raised beds are much easier on the back and your not cultivating and weeding at your feet. I suppose investing in some IBC tanks to collect rainwater in would be more suitable for your New Zealand climate. It will be good to learn when your growing seasons are. I look forward to following your progress on your new land TM.
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