Dug beds 2-4

After a couple of cold, cold weeks of hard frosts and temperatures of as low as -7 here I took advantage of a rare non-frosty day to do a spot of digging and mucking. I managed to dig half of bed 1 (where the squashes had failed to thrive last year), dig and muck half of bed 2 where the french beans had been, hoe and weed bed 3 where my savoy and spring cabbages and japanese onions are still slowly growing, and in bed 4 dig up the last of my turnips and dig and muck everywhere except around the few beetroot and kohl rabi still left in. I did some minor repairs of the raised beds which are only temporarly and made from old fence panels, but it certainly looks tidier now. The cabbages in bed 7 are looking a bit sad but I'll give them until spring to see if they spring into life.

I still have the bulk of the digging to do of the so-far unused beds - 5, 9 ,10 ,11 and the whole of the end area where my trees are going to be. I am going to put sprouts, jerusalem artichokes, PSB, carrots, parsnips and asparagus down there, as well as the trees, but haven't even marked out the beds yet. So much to do, so little time! Sigh..........