Luke worked hard on expanding the vegetable patch which he then planted up with potatoes. The first thing he plants when using new ground as the plant helps to break up the soil.
I want to busy around it and get a design to the veg patch which probably drives Luke wild when it's purely perfunctory for him.
My idea is to divide it into four so each bed is small enough to tend without having to tread on the rest of it. I want to divide it diagonally so there are four triangles with a centre point (maybe a sun dial or possibly just a large pot) and, to keep out the chicks a box edge about a foot high. Delusions of grandeur would have seen me planting dwarf espalier apples but these will only be pecked at by the chicks and I'm not convinced that growing fruit so low to the ground is a good thing for us to do, chickens, slugs and wellington books may take their toll as well as the splash back from the ground being hosed over. They look lovely but aren't yet for me.
(I've also added some photos to the tree post from last weekend).
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