Now then my little charmers; in an effort to reduce food miles from grown on just the other side of town, I'm going to have a go for growing on just the other side of the garden. For this I need some raised beds - you can't be expecting a man of my advancing years to bend right over.
So, top left, here's the 3 raised beds I've bought. It says two people are required to build these and I can see why - I had to caber toss them across the garden. Once unpacked the individual bits of wood have become rather more manageable. I say manageable; I was expecting something akin to an ikea flat pack with chunkier wood. Oh, no though; this stuff requires drilling. The wife is quaking in her boots at the thought of the damage I can do with a drill.
First though, my veg plot ground is not flat. This is going to involve some digging. and this has me quaking in my boots, and this requires manual labour and that's hard.
To date my planters have cost me £200, so I'm going to have to produce quite a bit of veg to get that back.
