[sellickbhoy]

ouch, i'm sore today

having been busy doing other things, i've spent the last few days getting to grips with the garden - about a month ago, i hired a mini digger to level a large area of the garden - this meant demolishing the old raised beds

so, the garden was flattened and i've spent the last few days building them all again and laying out the slabs between them - i'm pooped!!!

now the really hard work starts - ive to fill them with compost!!!

I've got 3 raised beds, 4' wide by 50' long - gonna need many tonnes of the stuff!! fun weekend ahead of me!

but, at least once it's done I can get a permanent strawberry patch built! and now it's warming up, i might get some veg planted for this year

going high tech this year!!  I'm burying a leaky hose through the beds - so i can water without spraying, and i'm putting a clear plastic roof over the beds - to help keep rain of my strawbs, but also to heat things up to get my seeds going.

in thewinter, i'll leave the roof on and do more winter veg too

[doganjo]

My son bought me two builders dumpy bags - £4 each - to add to the two old ones I already had.  Filled them with straw and poo from ducks mand chickens, left to sink for a couple of weeks, added spoil heap soil from connservatory build, then a few days later after a good lot of rain, added some bags of compost and bingo 4 raised beds.  How successful they will be can be seen at the CSSA barbie in August!  Anybody want to join?

[sandy]

I have 2 large plastic tubs to fill, I now am stuck for compost to fill them as the car is off road.....I will fill them with something, maybe salad stuff and herbs.....

[HappyHippy]

I don't envy you in the slightest !
I know how I felt after filling just two 8x4 beds with soil  Mind you they are nearly 2 ft high, I am a girl and was probably pregnant at the time  (They're my excuses and I'm sticking to them !) But trying to fill 150 ft worth of raised bed - errrmmmm - that's definately a job for the boys  Good luck and don't knacker yourself doing it !

[doganjo]

I have 2 large plastic tubs to fill, I now am stuck for compost to fill them as the car is off road.....I will fill them with something, maybe salad stuff and herbs.....

Sandy, how often do I have to say this - call me and I'll help!"!!!!!!!!!!

[Wizard]

I can tell you one thing Annie love it takes a lot of molehills to do what you lot are doing.I've got to have a couple of rotten bales in the bottom

[doganjo]

I've got the soiled straw from my ducks and chickens at the bottom of mine!