Showing posts with label raised beds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label raised beds. Show all posts

2014-06-23

Also...

... a few more pics. Things I planted today:

Some sweet peas that were forgotten in a pot

Cucumber for pickling. I have a feeling it will get eaten.
 On the garden bed, sprouts! finally:


Low peas

Radishes

 I put the gifted Stevia in an empty terracotta pot, shading the Clematis (Joe), which after losing its flowers a long time ago, is growing many new shoots and leaves:

Stevia and clematis

I love Pak Choy. I had these seedlings getting leggy behind the window. In a few days outside on the windowsill with a larger pot, they've become much stronger:

Pak Choy
 Passionflower, some herbs, another cucumber:

Sunny windowsill

2014-05-08

Raised bed update

Stuff on the raised bed keeps on getting munched! I don't know what does it, there are no signs of anything. No snail or slug trails, no signs on the ground.

Raised bed with a veil
I did this quick fix a few days ago. The next day I found it a bit broken on one side and sunk. Looked like a cat jumped on it! I could somewhat fix it. Some more sprouts came about, only to be munched again, this time with no sign of entry whatsoever! it's a mystery.

I'll have to start the seedlings indoors and transplant when the plants are stronger.

2014-04-19

Sowing on raised bed

Last year the sweet onions were devoured from below in a few days, so I'm trying something else this year.

We got a cheapo willow raised bed in gamma (1x1m) and 200l of potting soil. I put it at the back on the driest and sunniest spot in the garden, added two small scoops of dried cow and chicken manure, mixed, watered and sowed:
At the back all along the back, a mix of dill and cucumbers for pickling (Lidl), in ribbons. I didn't separate the three bits (dill-cucumber-dill) not sure it was meant to or not.
A bit further two rows of sweet onions, one of red and one white (Aveve), in ribbons.
Next a row of chard, on the left a packet from Brico (Central Park), on the right some I bought in Spain (Batlle).
On the very edge I spread some basilicum (Central Park).
All of these, larvae, slugs and snails I'm sure would be happy to devour again. Hoping the location, bed and new soil will be a deterrent, we'll see.
It's probably too sunny a spot for the chard and basil, though. Possibly the dill as well. The bag inside the bed has handles, but doesn't look like it would be easy to move once full.