The garden from scratch
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(17-02-2025, 10:25 AM)JJB Wrote: You'll have more rhubarb than you know what to do with. I see loads of your favourite rhubarb cake on the horizon.
Not till I’ve got a real kitchen. Then I’ll be making so so many rhubarb cakes.
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Fence bed now planted up.     

Not looking overly impressive at the moment or very full. It contains (honest)
Sweet William 
Cowslip 
White buddleia 
Orange buddleia 
Buddleia 
Dark purple, variegated buddleia 
Black elderberry 
Chilean lantern tree
Oregano 
Pyracantha orange glow
Pyracantha soleil d’ or’
Persicaria purple fantasy 
Primrose 
Tulips, mix of - pink impression, rosalia, purple prince.
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Another milestone in the garden department. I have my first raised bed in the veg garden.

    This is ridiculously exciting.

This is the smallest of all my veg beds at 2.4m x 1.1m .
Tomorrow if the weather plays nice (hopefully) I just have to dig the turf out . Put weed fabric around the outside. Then fill it!
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A bed with a view!
Do you need to dig the turf out? I think I'd be lazy and just stick some cardboard at the bottom.
Has Anyone Seen the Plot?

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(26-02-2025, 11:09 PM)PyreneesPlot Wrote: A bed with a view!
Do you need to dig the turf out? I think I'd be lazy and just stick some cardboard at the bottom.
I say turf to make me feel better. It’s mostly rushes with will grow through anything and everything.
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(26-02-2025, 11:11 PM)Small chilli Wrote:
(26-02-2025, 11:09 PM)PyreneesPlot Wrote: A bed with a view!
Do you need to dig the turf out? I think I'd be lazy and just stick some cardboard at the bottom.
I say turf to make me feel better. It’s mostly rushes with will grow through anything and everything.
Sounds grim
Has Anyone Seen the Plot?

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Finished filling my first veg bed. Hopefully the wind break will help protect my crops a little. It’s covered until it’s needed. Which won’t be long. As the seedlings destined for there are growing nicely.      

Rhubarbs grown since the last raised bed photo  Cool
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(16-03-2025, 06:01 PM)Small chilli Wrote: Rhubarbs grown since the last raised bed photo  Cool

Wow, that's fab rhubarb! Mine is still only little red nodules poking out of the ground!
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(18-03-2025, 09:18 PM)SarrissUK Wrote:
(16-03-2025, 06:01 PM)Small chilli Wrote: Rhubarbs grown since the last raised bed photo  Cool

Wow, that's fab rhubarb! Mine is still only little red nodules poking out of the ground!
Ditto! Sick
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(19-03-2025, 01:19 PM)Vinny Wrote:
(18-03-2025, 09:18 PM)SarrissUK Wrote:
(16-03-2025, 06:01 PM)Small chilli Wrote: Rhubarbs grown since the last raised bed photo  Cool

Wow, that's fab rhubarb! Mine is still only little red nodules poking out of the ground!
Ditto! Sick
It’s timperley early rhubarb. It’s a bit behind this year as it’s been split.
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