After arrival and getting all of the house contents on site, we need to get our first No-dig
beds in so we can get some crops planted ASAP.
The beauty of No-dig is that this can be done rather quickly and you can get up and running in far less time than conventional gardening methods which is a blessing considering the work we need to do in the first six months of tenure.
Field layout with Veg. section highlighted.
On the photo above you can see the area where we intend to place the vegetable patch (highlighted in white), which will be the main growing area. This will be sub-divided into quarters to allow smaller working areas.
The first task will be to lay down the cardboard from our packing boxes over the area and to build a temporary edging to hold back the compost as we shall cover it with around 5-6 inches of compost to seal the ground.
This will effectively kill the grass under the cardboard and we can plant it directly into the compost to facilitate crops.
Another chore will be to erect temporary wire fencing to the top edge of the field to keep out the rabbits that occupy the top right field. So these little darlings will have to be excluded from the area if we wish to have a decent crop of vegetables. The left-side fencing will also have to be ‘chicken wired’ to keep the voracious bunnies from the crops.
Long term I plan to build a wall on the left and top sides of the highlighted area as the other two sides are already walled around the cemetery area. This will give us a walled garden which shall be most useful in future years.