Fixed Raised Bed

managed to squeeze some time in today to clear the rubble, this is starting to look how i'd like, ready for more soil to go in and no nonsense to clear up :) Even my dog is looking on at my work with admiration lol.

 

Found this on a website which will fit inside snugly:

Runner Beans - Seed Saving

Earlier this year I planted a handful of runner bean seeds in the fixed raised bed. Unfortunately I did not tend to these at all, in fact they were left untouched until they had gone to seed early october.

I simply removed the seeds from the pods, sorted the mouldy ones from the good ones and left them on my kitchen worktop, after about a week they had dried out so the shells would more likely crack under pressure than squash in.

I have now placed these seeds in an envelope in a cupboard ready to plant next time.

Seed Saving

Seed saving is something I see just as important as planting the seeds themselves. One of the reasons I decided to grow vegetables was the cost saving and to buy seeds each year when they could be saved is taking away from the overall cost saving, as I progress with saving seeds I will be posting the method I use and the success I have with it.

Vegetables

Planted some Radish on my window sill on the 25th and they are just started to show coming through after 5 days, looking on the packet they should be sowed from march to september, but I am guessing they will grow all year round on the window sill, will keep a log of what I am planting with lengths of time to come through, replant etc and maybe post it when it is in good progress :)

Garden Plan

Preparing the Garden

The triangle was filled with stones, with the wooden pieces next to the house bordering them, removed this to make more space for raised beds / possible polytunnel in the future

Fixed Raised Bed

The rubble was in the bottom of the bed, I did grow runner beans, well planted them and just left them earlier this year, they just grew in a mass, I have saved seeds from them for next plantings