Maintaining the raised beds

I’ve been readying the vegetable beds so the Other Half and I can start planting out brassicas, onions and broad beans between now and Sunday, but ran into a few problems with this bed and another. They’re the first two we built four years ago and are showing signs of their age.

I’ll tell you where to go…

I’d just sat down to eat my breakfast of oatmeal porridge, apple and a coffee when an unfamiliar man in a suit walked past the dining room window.

I sighed, stood up, collected the door keys and walked through to the sunporch.

I opened the door and said, “Hi, what can I do for you?”