Steve has moved a whole load of the topsoil from front garden to back – an ingenious ramp system on the wooden steps made it possible to get the whole way with the barrow without having to unload/reload it or use buckets, phew.
We now have both beds filled to ground level. We are allowing them a day or two to settle during which my job is to get the edges weeded and straightened up, line up the raised bed surrounds nice and straight, then fix them into position for Steve to top them up with more soil. We will fill them almost full, as they will sink down as the compost composts and we can top up as required from there. I will also add some fertilizer to the topsoil layer – probably bonemeal.
Planting will be in blocks, 11 plants to each 2m x 1m bed which is perhaps too many but I am hoping it will be okay:
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I will use 7 of each green variety and an extra purple one. The rest of the order will go to BooLou for their lottie:
Stewarts Purple x 12 early, sweet, purple
Ariane x 10 (organic) early season
Backlim x 10 (organic) mid to late, can be grown as white asparagus after a few years
