About

Last revised 2026-07-19

Three raised beds behind a rented flat, a water butt, and one pear tree that came with the place. I grow beans, chard, garlic and too much mint.

The log exists because memory is a poor instrument for anything seasonal. By February I can no longer recall whether the garlic went in before the first frost or after it, and the difference turns out to matter.

What is in the beds

North bed: garlic over winter, then climbing beans up the fence.
Middle bed: chard, which survives everything, and whatever seed is left over in the tin.
South bed: potatoes one year, brassicas the next, turn and turn about.

If something here is wrong — and with soil advice it very often is — I would rather know than not.