March 2007: Hawthorne Drive

We have taken over a new and rather large garden at Hawthorn Drive which is kind of under the control of the weeds. Never mind. Sometimes the right piece of machinery works wonders, in this case a strimmer. Although we are trying to grow organic food on a reasonable scale with minimum use of fossil fuels, it is sometimes the best option. We uncovered lots of raised beds from the gardens previous life and these will help us to organise future plantings. The beds will be covered with cardboard (from the school) and seaweed (from the Beauly Firth) which will suppress weeds and slowly build up the organic matter and fertlity of the soil. This is called "mulching" the soil, and the cardboard and weaweed are both "mulches". It's a lazy way to garden but that sounds like a better option than some others. There will be photos to go along with this as soon as we can figure out how to do it.