Garden upgrades

by Philippa

Late last November I shared this photo of our vegetable garden.

We had planted tomatoes, snap peas and watermelon. The tomatoes were fabulous and we had a bumper crop. I think we planted the snap peas a little late so they flowered while they were too small. We ended up with three large watermelons – they were in the bed on the right. We won’t plant watermelons again – far too much water was used for just three melons.

This year we have worked quite hard and changed the vegetable patch to this:

We’ve yet to build the second bed which will go next to this one, and we also have a few wine barrels to go in – if we can find some to buy. We have six cubic metres of compost soil arriving today to fill them. My back is already aching at the thought! But at least with raised beds like this there will be no bending to weed, and no access for Naughty Ears. I’m rather looking forward to the planting stage – hopefully on Sunday.