Further progress

Cabbage, spinach and lettuce to the left and snow peas and broad beans to the right..

Th broad beans are just starting to flower.












I have put in a hydroponic raft unit for some lettuce seedlings. These are polystyrene boxes painted black. The pipe for the air stone is at the back right hand side and the pump is sitting under the bottom box. I have started everything off with a quarter strength nutrient

Raised Garden Beds

I had always regarded Aldi as a food supermarket. I was alerted by friends to their special purchases on Wednesdays and Saturdays. I bought six raised garden beds that they had at a very nice price and I have put up three of them.

 This one has lettuces and a couple of cucumbers at the back. The bed is in a shady position (to suit the lettuces which bolt at the drop of a hat if put out in the open) and it has been favoured with a brick plinth

 The second bed has been planted with perennial basil, parsley, french beans and leeks. I fear that I might have been a little bit optimistic about my plant spacing.

 The beans are forming nicely.

An indulgence - a mass planting of petunias with a couple of geraniums.