OUTDOORS 37

The next task outdoors was relining one of the three raised beds. The couch grass was growing rapidly and hiding the strawberries as well as stealing their nutrients and water. The first task was to remove the strawberries to somewhere safe, as shown in the following photo. Above, you can see me measuring the weed-out and cutting it to size, with 1/3 the soil in the bed dug over and de-weeded.

Here is a wider angle shot of the plot, showing where other matters stood. Potatoes and leeks in the front of the shed - with 2 cabbage to the side of my weed bin. Behind right, chickpeas, beans and shed; behind left, the raised bed in question and one of strawberries and nasturtiums. Beyond right, the third raised bed of strawberries, my weed pile now growing a spud, and raspberries in rear. Beyond left, corn, toms, cabbage, raspberries...

I have now completed the raised bed, having dug thru all the soil, removed 1/3 at a time into a barrow and layed triplicate lining (poly, black trash bags, weed-out) and refilled with horse muck and weeded soil. It now remains for me to replace some of the strawberries and gather some runners.

This may appear to be a short blog today - but it does end with THIS VIDEO showing the contents of my poly tunnel on the final day of June 2018. Regular readers may recall me sharing a video of the tunnel a while back showing the smaller plants....it's now quite a jungle in there, with large tomato plants fruiting/flowering, a flowering butternut, 3 potato buckets, multiple spring onions, chilies, lemongrasses, parsley, chives...