Last year I joined the fashion for raised bed gardening. Not that I am much of a gardener; I like watching gardening programmes and enjoy other people's gardens. I talk a good garden. Anyway, in a fit of activity I got some railway sleepers (some not needed any more, obviously) and cut them into shape. Then I filled them with lots of horse manure and high quality top soil. They were an amazing success. From that small space I grew some flowers at the front to disguise the vegetables, lettuce (many kinds), potatoes, spring onions, cabbage, courgettes, beetroot, leeks, carrots, green beans, and bush tomatoes (from which I made ten jars of chutney). This was gardening made easy for lazy folk like me.
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| This weekend the daffodils in the raised beds marked the start of the growing season. |
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| In the beginning... |
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| These were the same raised beds at the peak of the growing season last summer. |
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