Preparing a Kitchen Garden for Planting
Those that tune into this site for thrills, spills and racy chicks will no doubt be pleased to hear that it’s that time of year again.
No, not pit babes because the F1 season starts next week but the next episode in the smash hit series - I present . . .
Kitchen Garden III
I know you’re positively salivating now and past experience tells us that the Kitchen Garden is as much fun as you can have with your clothes on - or indeed without clothes !
Saturday saw the nicest day of the year and was an opportunity not to be missed. With a huge burst of energy, largely fuelled by my new monkish lifestyle, remember the last time and Temperance Society, it was best hoe forward.
Ground cleared and dug, old foliage and weeds out, tubs emptied and ground prepared all ready for the new season of planting
The Result of a Good Day’s Work
You’ll see the two ‘raised beds’, forefront right, which will increase capacity considerably. At the back you see a raised wall then soil then a pathway for access, there is the same amount of ground behind that path as there is in front plus it more to the left out of camera shot.
All-in-all this is adding up to quite a reasonable sized plot - certainly one that should supply more produce than the Goldeneye stomach can process !
This year I’m going to set out a proper plan for planting and choose more carefully what I plant. I think anything ‘leafy’ will probably be abandoned due to caterpillars and the like.
I’ve just had a look out of the window before I typed this line and it’s already becoming a joy just in anticipation. I am really looking forward to the coming year in the Kitchen Garden and strangely, not one moment spent there has even remotely felt like a chore or obligation.
I know you’re all frantic about being kept up to date with the latest KG news so women, get off the spin drier, men stop looking at those rabbits and gird your loins for further instalments in the months ahead - I know you can’t wait 
As always, I recommend it to anybody, give it a go if you have not done so already.
All the best
Tranquil Rod
Little Brother said,
March 22, 2009 @ 8:48 pm
Rod,
Looks awesome bro, good luck with it.
LB
Rod said,
March 23, 2009 @ 8:04 am
LB,
many thanks - especially for the tips etc over the last couple of years.
Much appreciated
Rod