Ready, Onion set, Go!

The weather has now improved sufficient to actually start in the garden. The small bed has been dug, cleared of weeds and harrowed. A few logs laid around the edges to help keep the weeds from growing inwards.

Into this bed so far have gone three rows of red shallots and five rows of white onions. This leaves about a two foot space in the middle. My main reason for wishing to go over to raised beds is the difficulty in weeding large beds without leaving such big gaps productivity is poor as the space is underutilized. I think I will leave a gap through the middle of this bed, so can probably get another two rows of onions in on the side the shallots are on.

The rest of the beds still need digging and weeding. I will probably start with the top bed in order to get some potatoes in soon.

Tom wants to grow something this year, so Im going to give him the task of getting some sweet peas going.