Vege Gardens: Area B
It’s been such fantastic weather lately that we just cannot stay inside. So we’ve been finding things to keep ourselves occupied outside (while we wait for more deck action, of course). We had such fun digging holes for the deck that we thought we’d have a crack at some bigger holes. Much bigger holes! Big long trenchy type holes. Holes for vege plots, in fact. As someone recently reminded me, we do need to look at farming larger bits than just our four little 1mx1m plots way up by the water tank. So we’ve started with three 1.2mx3.5m trenches closer to the house.
So far over the last day and a bit we’ve managed to take all the turf off them all, and dug one out to 30-40cm deep. As with all holes around here it was pretty hard going. The jarring from constantly hitting stones takes its toll on the elbows and wrists, but we got there. We’ve even started to re-fill it with the layer of decent topsoil that we saved from the hole and screened with the trusty garden sieve, which is still providing sterling service! Now we just have to add some compost, and then screen the topsoil from trench 2 over top, mix, and then keep adding topsoil until we’re done. Easy! But potentially back breaking. We’re planning to have them as raised bed type gardens, but we’ll try just mounding them up without anything around them to start with and see how that goes.
We did look at using either timber or corrugated iron for sides to taller raised beds, but the conflicting, confusing advice about whether you can/should use treated timber, etc just got too much, so we’ll try the old-school approach first.
Whatever we do it’ll have to be fenced to keep both the wind and the hares away. But we’ll deal with that once we’ve got the dirt bit done!
Looks like you are digging graves.
Bec did in fact turn to me at one stage and ask for clarification that what we were digging was indeed for vegetables…