Moving on to the veggie patch.
What can I say. Denmark like most of Europe got a beating with some storms. Living quite close to the coast, (a 20 minute walk, or so the wife tells me. I'll stick to the five minutes in a car... Well when the road is back. That's another story). The fence around the veggies survived but the supports holding it; not so much.
Of the 10 m2 of wood chip that was our paths and weed protection, the circa 3m2 that was not totally bound in by WEEDS washed away in the rain, covering half the grass bit in the process. The field next door slopes toward the garden. So we got the run-off from that as well. Veggie garden was a wreck.
The last weeks project.
The brother in law came by with his drone. A nice birdseye view of the garden. The boxes at the top is where the beds used to be. from the left: the four small beds one have Jerusalem artichokes in, the three others used as buffers. The five long beds our peas, beans etc. the large square bed the spuds and next to that, the herbs. Then the last bed Sweetcorn.
Last week I was in the barn and built 6 new planting boxes, setting them and moving all the soil over. The bed for the spuds is now two beds, one for earlies the other for chips. and jackets (aka late crop potatoes
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The four boxes at the left have now gone. I got about 8kg of those glorious globes of nutty goodness which I sold to a local restaurant. for £25 not a bad return for £1 worth of Jerusalems... (jordskokker is a much easier name). I digress. as they are gone the veggie garden is being shrunk down.
There is a huge cherry and a half dead Acacia that need to come down befor they fall down. so I need to move the fence. sigh.
The weekend saw me planting posts and bracings - going for H braces this time all in 10cm with 8cm cross bars. and the wire fence will be stretched tight this time.
About wood chip paths. Weeds grow really well in them regardless of the landscape fabric below. Any and all airbourne seed root with 100% success!
As the Deer keep eating the tops off the strawberries (third year running), they will be getting moved inside the fence. where the herbs are at the moment.
The herbs with be moving out here where Carina is doing a bed of healing and health plants. I call it the Witches bed. lol. I am looking for a typical witches caldron to put in it when she is not looking. They are all things that can be used for eating, drinking or cooking. hmm
And I wonder why I have a stiff neck. lol
