Inspired partly by the Transition Town meeting last night – but more so by the lovely spring weather – we decided it was time to start turning the gravel bed at the back of the house into four productive raised beds for growing veggies. But what would we find under the stones? had the previous owner laced the soil with weedkiller?

We decided the safest plan was to create four temporary beds, plant potatoes and some spare onion / garlic / shallot sets, and see what happens. If all goes well, the conversion to raised beds will be an autumn project.

As the photos show, the initial results are encouraging. There’s a good spade and a half depth of good soil, and the odd earthworm wriggling around under the weed control fabric suggests that there isn’t anything too poisonous there.

One bed dug, three to go, then wait and see what grows!

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