Home made mini green house

Just a quick one today, managed to make a couple of shelters for one raised bed, comprised of 10mm polycarbonate from work, some wood panel i came by and a little bit of graft, you can see from the photos how it all turned, the back was alittle too tall to start with so i cut that down...i'm very happy with the results.....good job...so to celebrate, i popped in some parsnips, cauliflower, beetroot and red onions.....smaller qty's this year but properly spaced out...

Day 2 of making raised beds

As you can see raised bed no2 is now finshed. No3 is constructed but i need some more soil to put in that one, no3 is based further up the garden. The layout is designed around what plants require what amount of direct constant sunlight (see previous post). The other 2 photos on here today are from the seeds i planted about 3/4 weeks ago which seems to be quite well, almost too fast....come on the spring!

Raised Beds!

So as the year starts again for all the garden chores, mine start with making 3 raised beds. This includes the fact of i obtained 6 sleepers free of charge!...result you might say!...indeed i agree! ....however they are the heaviest thing on the planet and i have the war wounds to prove it...anyhow the attached photos show of todays efforts to build them...so far i have 1 and a half done, only because someone was supposed to drop around a scaffold board but never made it, so there is one complete and the 2nd halfway through....looks good i think considering i have never built them before. There seems to be an important fact for using sleepers that may have been treated with some sort of protective liquid, it seems that they may weep the said treated liquid through the summer months and could do some damge to your soil, so the recomended course of action is to line the inside of the sleeper with plastic (as you can see in the photo)......thats it for now

So it seems that the time has come around again to start growing things again and seeing how i forgot and just did not bother with my blog last year or i am more determined this year to follow through. I have a new plan this year which includeds raised beds for a start and armed with now 3yrs of growing knowkledge. So at this stage i planted Garlic in october 09 so there will be plenty of that to follow around may 2010. Now as promised i have drafted my plan (see photo) and i have put in my first seeds (see photo) which have taken up the whole of the dining room windowsill until there ready to go outside. The raised beds have yet to built but seeing how most of the other things won't be ready to go out until march or around then...there's no rush, plus i need to gather said materials....watch this space