#205 |
After I filmed my walkthrough the other day I spent another couple of hours preparing my runner bean bed. As I mentioned, last year I had the 8 foot bean canes up and as well as growing runner beans (not very sucessfully I may add) I piled all manner of allotment waste and kitchen waste in between the bean poles. Bean poles have been taken down and I have a long heap of rotted vegetation along the centre of where they were. This I levelled then put some decking boards I had lying around around the proposed bean bed.
I then dug the whole lot over removing no end of weeds mainly nettles, couch grass and docks. I filled two llarge containers with waste matter and one container with bits of plastic. The stones were thrown out to the edge of bed. After digging I levelled the soil the best I could with the rake. My intension is to re-dig the bed at a later date because I am bound to have missed some pernicious weeds. Once thats done, cover with cardboard and compost until planting time.
The reason I am sticking with this position is because the greenhouse and row of Jerusalem artichokes act as a barrier to the prevailing wind. I tried other areas but they just got battered by the wind!
I then dug the whole lot over removing no end of weeds mainly nettles, couch grass and docks. I filled two llarge containers with waste matter and one container with bits of plastic. The stones were thrown out to the edge of bed. After digging I levelled the soil the best I could with the rake. My intension is to re-dig the bed at a later date because I am bound to have missed some pernicious weeds. Once thats done, cover with cardboard and compost until planting time.
The reason I am sticking with this position is because the greenhouse and row of Jerusalem artichokes act as a barrier to the prevailing wind. I tried other areas but they just got battered by the wind!
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