I went up to the plot yesterday, and put in two more raised beds. I took the spirit level this time, and made a better job of the digging, so they look a lot better than the first two - in fact I plan to transplant the surviving broad beans from bed 2, uproot the frame and dig it in again. Maybe next week when I put in the final two raised bed kits.
The soil quality, once dug over, is not bad, although riddled with dandelion roots; I need to go over each bed with a hand fork and a bucket and get as much out as I can, but even so I suspect I'll be digging up dandelions for years to come. The two broad bean plots have as many baby dandelion plants as they do broad beans. Must take a trowel with me next time I go.
The mild weather had brought out the allotmenteers in greater numbers, and since last week someone has cleared and rotavated the plot diagonally opposite to mine, which is good news for weed control. Less good news was the large bonfire of green stuff someone kindly lit 50 yards upwind of my plot, although thankfully I had nearly finished my labours at that point.
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