Two days in a row! Loving it! Even had Pip out to enjoy the blue skies!
It was so good to really get my teeth into some work today (mind you, I am feeling it a bit tonight!!)
I scraped off the newspaper and mulch from one half of the raised bed and was really pleased that I had almost no weeds at all to contend with! It was just a matter of giving it a dig over and admiring the worms.
I planned on putting our carrots in here
I don’t do much special. Just sprinkle them along.
Later when they are about little finger size, I start pulling them to eat, leaving a few well spaced for later so they grow bigger.
Pleased to fit five rows in this little space!
Job one done.
I then went into the main patch and finished turning over the green manure. I think I was meant to leave it a few weeks to start breaking down etc. Nope. Running out of time, so the corn seeds went in today and they just have to do their best!
I have about 130 seeds in. Enough do you think??
I also went and put in a row of marigolds at the end as the seedlings were a good size
I needed to use the barrow full of mulch from the carrot patch, so I quickly started weeding a bit of the garlic patch and mulched it. Still a lot to go to get it finished.
Then onto that middle patch – That took a fair bit of work. The soil is still gluggy, but a good portion is now cleaned up, weeded and turned over.
I plan to put my zucchinis in here
That makes the whole area look so much better, even though I know there is still a lot to be done!
Rhubarb, Parsley & celery. I actually just transplanted the parsley… will see soon enough if it was happy about that or not!
Here’s hoping for a few more days in the sun!
Hope your weekends were fabulous!
Cheers!
Why do you remove the mulch from the carrot bed? I’m just curious.
Hi Jennifer. In my experience the seeds won’t germinate well or if at all through the mulch. I remember failing at beetroot seeds because I did that and a gardening cousin explained. Which makes sense as the mulch suppresses the weeds growing, so I guess anything I deliberately plant would have the same trouble.
Once the plants are along a bit I might add the mulch back although I have never gotten around to mulching my carrots before (only via laziness not choice haha)
Lookin’ good, Lisa!
🙂 Thanks Caroline! So glad to make progress!