Eager to get the Cultivation Station raised bed up and running we went out into the garden again last evening to attempt a bit of planting – even though it was raining. That’s either very sad or extremely dedicated!

Now, following the lovely smell from yesterday and the lack of gardening gloves, I managed to dig out some plastic hair dye gloves which I was hoping would be just as effective. Even if I do look like some kind of surgeon.

Out with the tools I proceeded to dig a hole in one of the sections and went to claim my first victim, the strawberry plant.

As I stood there pulling at the plant, trying to yank it out of its pot, it was suggested that maybe I might be better off trying to loosen the pot from the soil base instead of pulling the plant to pieces.

I knew that….

Anyway so after some troweling (new term) all the pepper plants are now together at the back of the raised bed we had created, with the tomatoes and strawberry plant all complete with identification labels.

We decided to plant some broccoli and some onions too, red ones and spring ones, I think they are done correctly. Placing the seeds Daisyboots had kindly donated to us I started poking holes in the soil with my finger, putting in the seeds and then covering them over.

Now I was wondering, would I need a net to stop the birds eating the strawberries? I’m not sure.

We do have a lot of Mag Pies, and they are greedy Mag Pies. We recently bought some fat balls for the sparrows and alike and we would put one out during the day and by morning the whole thing would be gone – net and all. That was definitely not the sparrows.

For one of the corner areas Rich decided he would like to try and plant something. And so I present to you;

**Rich’s Random Experiment**

Will it grow?

Who knows.

Only time will tell!