This is what I did this weekend! →[More:]Knackered, exhausted, dirty, & satisfied (Hmmm. so no change there then!)

Last November I started dismantling my son's playground as he'd grown out of it. I have been dreaming of growing my own vegetables for about 5 years now. So I finally started digging and cementing in posts to build some raised beds. The soil here is clay, you could bake patties of it in an oven and make coasters, so raised beds it was. I'm annoyed I didn't take more photos of each stage but it was winter, often raining and freezing hands in big dirty gloves kinda put me off.

Bed 1 was finished about 13th March, and I finally got Bed 2 finished last week and started planting. I'm a little too impatient though and in some cases I've planted too early .

Bed 3 is just an afterthought, a temporary arrangement for the beans, (although I'm so keen I already have a pumpkin, courgette and tomato under plastic cloches in here!) There is room to widen this significantly next year, but I'd need to do the whole cementing in the posts thing and I'm just too tired this year!

Just behind this Magnolia, there is a little triangle of really poor soil that I've tried to improve. I think that's a long term issue though!

I'm so very tired and am off for a hot bath! But it feels amazing to make one of my little dreams come true. ;)