Bed 15 & Climbing Frame Greenhouse

Speed Feed pipes installed in Raised Bed 15, which will be sown with carrots seeds eventually once I have cut and drilled a timber to hold the top of the arch of the hoops and cut the netting to fit the bed. 

The Speed Feed Pipes are no longer sold so I will visit a plumbing shop and buy some pipe and fittings to make some for the bed behind in the photo.

Speed Feed Pipes, basically a gully with a pipe with holes in along its length that I got off Freecycle a few years ago

Trench dug to the depth of the gully

Trench excavated and Speed Feed pipes installed so the top of the gully is at bed surface level and the pipe level-ish. 

Speed Pipes once covered and the soil leveled off again. I watered the bed and also watered via the speed pipe as this bed is really dry as we have not had a lot of rain. I washed the paving down as they were covered in dry weed cuttings, that makes the area look cleaner and a bit brighter and more loved.

The job that is taking way too much time, removing the mares tail and bind weed from the Climbing Frame Greenhouse. I just wish that French climbing beans and cucumbers grew as fast as bindweed !

Crushed egg shells, to deter the slugs and snails and Cucumbers planted but with small capped sticks to hold the plants upright to make them a little harder to get at for the slugs and snails

The remainder of the Cucumbers were planted on the bed by the entrance

Still some mares tail to be removed but if I keep an eye on these beds now I can keep removing it as it comes up until the remainder of the climbing plants and the dwarf French beans have grown large enough to be transplanted.