It's been a busy week of gardening. On Tuesday evening I went along to the garden sharers Pub Quiz. It was a fun night, there were both garden owners and volunteers there. I'm no good at quizzes but the point wasn't to win it was to go along, meet some new people and have fun, which I did. Our team lost.
On Wednesday I spent the day planning my garden and researching a gardening method called square foot gardening. It allows you to maximise the space available in your garden. In stead of planting in rows, you plant in square foot plots, the amount of produce that can be planted in a square foot depends on the distance apart that seed packets advice planting. For instance, if plants should 6" apart, you can fit 4 of them in 1 square foot, 4" apart - 9, 3" apart - 16.
After planning and ordering seeds, I decided I better get out and do some prep so Thursday afternoon I headed down (in glorious sunshine) to my garden. Unfortunately E (the garden owner) was out so I couldn't access the main tools. I did however spend a nice couple of hours weeding and removing stones from the area of ground I'd already cleared. I've realised a number of things about my plot. The soil is clay based (very sticky and wet) and it's full of weeds and stones.
There's going to be a lot of work ahead of me.
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