Onions & Walking - Tree Onion Beds

A busy morning on plot 23B this morning. All the Japanese, Red and Radar onions, another six tray loads were planted in bed 3 & 6. The blue water pipe has been put in bed 2 for the sun to do it's magic and warm and hopefully bend the high Brussel Sprout hoop cage to the right profile, you can see the shape it wants to form on the two lengths laying on bed 8 in the photo above. I will be adding some tie rods at some time in the future.

Beds 3 in the background and bed 6 in the foreground with over wintered Onions

The plastic sheet at the back of the plot has been cut up and having moved all the bags of leafs into bed 7  it now covers bed 9 where the couch grass had started making it's way through the blue tarp. The walking onion bed and the path around it has been dug weeded and half a flower bucket of stones were removed. Cardboard was laid and covered with weed membrane and weight put on to stop it blowing away in the wind.

Some excess soil from the back was moved to fill the path up next to bed 6, and the shed had a bit of a tidy up, at least I can get in it again now, as it's been full of cardboard for the paths, my brother in law has kindly allowed me to squat in his shed as he has practically nothing in it.

I just had time to cable tie the first layer of mushroom tray bottoms to the ends of the Walking / Tree Onion bed, I will be cutting some weed membrane to line the scaffold boards and filling the bed with a mixture of soil, coir and compost from Dalek 1. I also managed to pick up another 10 trays from the café & my local Pizza man on the way home from the allotment.