I had a couple of spare hours today to prepare two of my raised garden beds.
Firstly, I let the chooks get stuck into scratching through the soil to turn it over. (They were delighted). One of the beds was drier, so I added more organic matter to the soil, gave it a good soak through, added some soil conditioner and mulch.
I have rotated the crops so that bed 1 which had my salad mixes, has now been planted out with peas and beans. I leave some old onions and beetroots in the beds which gives me green leaves to feed the chooks.
Bed 2 has now become the salad mix so my little seedlings have been planted which I raised a few weeks ago.
I also raised a few more seedling trays today with more plants for beds 3 and 4.
Make sure you refer to Jackie French's Companion planting booklet for crop rotation tips....
