Handy Adam

We have a raised bed! Adam worked long and hard nailing and hammering and we now have a lovely beautiful Bed With Edges. Frank the Italian from a few plots down came over and seemed most bemused by what we were doing. His plot is one big... field, I guess, and he uses the rotorvator to turn the soil each year, then plants wall-to-wall tomatoes. ("My wife, she make-a tomata souwce". His words.) Why anyone would want to put egdes on their beds, or even have beds at all was beyond him. "But then you can't-a use the motor!" I told him they looked nicer, but he was having none of it. I could almost hear him thinking "crazy English..."

And we have new neighbours! The eagle-eyed among you may have spotted that the plot next to ours - behind Adam in the pic - has been cleared. An Asian family has taken it on, kids, parents, grandparents, the lot. They've started digging, and seem very friendly, even to the point of incurring the wrath of Frank by agreeing with me that raised beds do, indeed, look nicer.

Thanks to Dick and Debbie who donated a million bags of leaves so we can make leaf mulch. It's another one of those things that we think about each year but never get around to collecting any. And thanks to Terry for bringing them over!