Thinking forward

We are looking to create a series of fixed raised-beds at the patch with grass paths running between them. I have been trying to calculate where the beds should be, bearing in mind that we have crops that will be standing over the Winter months.

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The Uchiki Kuri squash were grown in a bed that had been filled with manure, but my initial calculations had a path running through it !  So this morning we have been recalculating the layout so that the manured area would be fully utilised.

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The area has now been weeded and dug over and we will fix boards along the edges before adding more manure to raise the bed.  We will plant garlic here in the next few weeks and plant more squash when the garlic is harvested in June next year.

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