RAISED BED CONTINUED

 So the weather for the UK is HOT ! Which means we have to avoid working between 10 am and 6 pm in the garden. There is very little shade available in the garden and the raised bed is mostly in full sun most of the day.

But Paul's not one to be stopped if he's got a job to do. So he's been working when he can and now the back boards are all in. The blue plastic you can see is what we put in to stop the wood from rotting forming a barrier between the wood and the soil.

It will be stapled to the inside of the wood once the new raised wall is finished.

The corner that joins the old sleepers. This will have a capping to help protect the wood and give a nicer look along the path.

The front of the raised bed is lower at just 12 inches but more of the rotten wood is missing, so more of the earth has fallen onto the path. Also before because we used the log roll ( Wooden slates held together by wire that rolls out to follow the shape you want ) we were able to curve the bed around in a nice bend but now we are using heavy wooden planks, we cannot follow the old wood's curve, so need to adjust the bed to suit the new planks.

We also plan of narrowing the bed , once round the curve to allow more room on the path now the bed opposite is growing well and has reduced the walkway. This will mean we will need to infill and increase area's of the path once the raised bed is done.

Boards cut stained and ready to be attached.

New boards in place and attached.

Here you can see where the curve's been turned into more of an angle.

Here you can see how much wider the path will be now, this is to allow the mature plants on the left border not to hinder people walking to the back circle.

Looking back towards folly, showing widening border

Nearing the end! So not far to go but more digging out to get the wood in place.

Sowing where the original path is.

Some filling in needed along this edge.

Here you can see how much of the curve's now gone.so a fair bit of filling here.

View from above.

Unfortunately this next section needs to go in anything between 6 inches to 12 inches, so there will need to be more infilling along the path. But once it's all done it will look great and be much easier to look after.

Tomorrow, Sunday, we are due to have a massive storm pass through, with lots of heavy rain, mostly they are saying early evening. Which means that, hopefully this last long section will be finished and fitted and then we will have to wait it out before the final stage, which involves reducing the end of the raised bed by about 18 inches! But that will be for next week !