More boarding, more shuffling, more relocating of crap

Another early start at the plot on Sunday AM, saw me try to complete the growing beds. However, after the hassles of transplanting and splitting Rhubarbzilla, I was already knackered. It kind messed with my plans a bit as I really wanted to leave it there but couldn't really find anywhere else to put the compost bin that didn't mean a complete rework of my plans.

I'd spent another few hours the previous day stripping hundreds of staples and bits of tape from another carload of boxes and turned up with a carload to see the large bed was looking a little ragtag from the wind with some gaps appearing. Clearly the manure/woodchip mulch layer was supposed to be keeping the cardboard down. Need some woodchip desperately before the wind destroys all my hard work!

I used some large flat pieces and weighed them down with timber to keep them covered...This central section will eventually be encroached upon - I just don't have enough manure to do it this season.

I then set about filling the walkways between some of the other beds using the tiny amount of woodchip left on site. I managed to procure around 4 barrow loads.

 

I then set about creating 3 new beds and finishing the large square one I started last weekend

See the pallets forming my composting area? Just to the left of them are two new beds - these are directly above the original site of the rhubarb, which is now just out of shot on the left of them

The composter is now going to get the full blast of the sun all day, which should aid my composting

The pictures are deceptive, these are somewhat larger/longer than they look - this two are for Dave's runner beans. I've tried to make all of the beds around 15cm-20cm deep

I've got Friday off - I suspect I'll be up here again to get that centre section done and possibly even  start digging the pond. Needs mulching there too. Having had some advice from Charles Dowding on his excellent forum http://www.charlesdowding.co.uk/forums/ I need to break the manure down into golfball sized chunks. That's a task in itself as many of the beds are like this but there are definitely some larger pieces which need working on.

SO MUCH TO DO!!!

....and I absolutely love it.