On Saturday 8 of the railway sleepers were cut in half by Jon to form the ends & I used full length ones for the sides.
Quite a lot of effort to put them into place as each full one weighs between 60 & 70kg so I doubt that they will move around much.
Thank goodness for my father in law, Les - he may have turned 70 this year but is very fit & strong.
The beds have been lined with the cardboard boxes that the solar panels came in last month.
Next job on the list is to lay slotted ag pipe down the middle of each bed to form a semi "wicked" effect. Other irrigation pipes will be run & Jon is going to plan how to connect them to the rainwater tank & the bore - not that he knows this yet!
Now to fill the beds I'm going to make them "No Dig" or what some people call Lasagna gardening.
Basically I will just fill them with layers of shredded newspaper, stable manure, very old lucerne hay, shredded autumn leaves (2 wool bales full), grass clippings & well rotted sheep manure. Very lucky that all but the hay was free or bartered for.
I already have a cubic metre of topsoil/garden blend but will probably need another 1 1/2 cubic metres to add to the above mix.
Then the planting can begin!
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