I'm hoping to keep on top of the bramble this year - we had buckets of blackberries last year, but it rampaged everywhere and eventually the path became unpassable.
It wasn't helped by the Hop that Vick had planted in the second bed - the support collapsed during the winter, so I took the opportunity to dig it out so that the bed will be more usable. Vick has resited our willow wigwam sculpture which looks splendid in it's new position.
This is the bottom of my garden (you can just see the gate to the allotment to the right of the photo :) )
When we moved in we were told that this area was full of glass, rubble and general crap ... a brief inspection confirmed it would be a massive job to excavate, so it was an easy decision to build some raised vegetable beds. In the background you can see the moors looking out towards Dore & Totley - we love living here :)
OH has been busy filling them with top soil and I've started to plant them - so far I have 9 raspberry canes, 8 strawberry plants, a tayberry, a fig (which will remain contained in it's pot) and a very sickly Globe Artichoke
The beds are sitting on landscape material which we will cover with gravel. The rest of the garden is still work in progress :(
This bed hasn't really been used for much before, so I've dug it over, removed all the herbs, weeds & self seeded alpine strawberries and planted strawberry plants. I've left some alpine strawberries to edge the bed as they are so pretty. There are also a couple of brambles growing against the wall. This bed also has bindweed, I've dug out a lot, but looking at all the shoots that are appearing it is going to be a long battle.
This shot is from the bottom of the lottie, looking back to the house. The sloe tree is now in full blossom and the comfrey in the 2nd bed is about to flower - I might do the first cut this weekend and add it to the compost heap
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