Started ours today,cleared out the old strawberry patch which is some 15ft x 7ft,then dug a trench down the centre,the ground is awful hence this used to be a raised bed and there are lots of bricks or builders rubble.
We cleared the trench area and put ground cover down either side as are going to put a small path either side and the rubbly areas are stricken with twitch,nettles and docks which would take us a week to get out!
Luckily we have a woods just out of the village so we went and picked up some large rotting chunks and trunks to place within the trench,this brought it up to some three and a half feet
,I finished off this evening by filling in the gaps with barrow loads of wood chip/mulch which I get from a local farmer,£10.00 a tonne bag-or in the last case two extra large joints of free range pork for 5 tonnes plus a tenner!
This wood chip mulch is cheap because it has been in the sacks for a while,it stinks of loveliness and has mushrooms growing from it
.Tomorrow hopefully the grass is being cut so shall rake all of this up,plus all the old hay/leaves from the winter and such-is this right Chairman? and put it on top.then i shall cover with all the topsoil which was the old strawberry bed,we have about 2 tonnes of it so should do the job?!