With the help of some old bricks from mum and dad’s house, we have started a raised bed vegie patch. Eventually we hope to have a 4 bed rotating vegie patch.
I started by lightly digging up some of the big bits of grass, but I think this was a waste of time.
Then we laid one row of bricks. About 8 bricks by 7 bricks.
Then we put down some newspaper. We only had 3 messengers so I think we’ll have to save up more paper for the next bed. The paper was put down 2 pages thick and overlapped onto the bricks. We put the second layer of bricks over the newspaper edges to secure it.
Then, I put down 2 wheelbarrow loads of a mixed assortment of mainly old leaves and grass clippings. On top went some seaweed from Brighton and then a light sprinkling of lime and dolomite for sweetness. This is what it looked like.
Then mum and dad brought some more bricks and we put a third layer of bricks down.
I did a layer of sugarcane straw, a layer of compost mulch, a dusting of lime/dolomite, a layer of sugarcane.
To plant, I added Marion council organic compost (compost made from Green bin ‘waste’ collected in the Marion council) and planted directly.
There are 7 cauliflowers, a chinese celery, a daisy and two rows of peas (covered in mesh which is held down with some bricks so that the birds/dog/cat don’t dig up any seedlings when they grow.)
Then it started raining. Here’s what it looks like now.
