It was fun and easy using the free trial offered by GrowVeg! However the hard works starts now transforming this:
into this:
I can't believe that I am able to fit so many raised beds in (we might indeed be able to feed the family!)! It's a whopping 30.10m x 10.30 m and I've kept most paths just wide enough (50cm) to accommodate the wheelbarrow's feet. My main concern was having enough potatoes, carrots, onions and sweet corn (and lots of salad greens of course) - the idea is to stagger the planting so that we continually have a crop throughout the season (it's called succession planting).
I don't think we have collected enough black wattle to build the twelve 1,8m x 1,8m compost bins (one for every month) never mind anything else. Problem is the growing season for some veg starts NOW (e.g. garlic & early potatoes) with most other in mid August (after the last frost) - time is short and the (willing) workers few!!! Removing the grass & building raised beds are the first priority - we have clay soil (very poor drainage) and this is the solution. We'll also be digging a "L-shaped" trench in the vacant space (top & left) to lead excess water away. In the long run raised beds are also easier to maintain and thus worth the expense and effort. I was hoping to use wattle for them (see below),
but to save time and labour we might have to resort to buying some of those slats which still have bark on the one side for the really urgent ones (they're a little cheaper than perfect planks)...
Looks good, hey? Hope you're inspired too... :-)
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