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Making a Raised Bed / Fazemos uma Cama Elevada

Choose your spot

1. Choose your spot

2. Dig out perennial weeds

2. Dig out perennial weeds

Sorrel

Sorrel

Couch Grass

Couch Grass

3. Make an edge to hold the soil in the raised bed

3. Make an edge to hold the soil in the raised bed

4. Give the soil a good drink (and yourselves!)

4. Give the soil a good drink (and yourselves!)

5. Add manure or compost to the raised bed

5. Add manure or compost to the raised bed

6. Prepare your plants (we made comfrey root cuttings)

6. Prepare your plants (we made comfrey root cuttings)

7. Plant the cuttings / plants

7. Plant the cuttings / plants

8. Water the cuttings / plants

8. Water the cuttings / plants

Cover with a straw mulch to hold moisture and suppress weeds

9. Mark cuttings with sticks and cover bed with a straw mulch to hold moisture and suppress weeds (to the left are two new raspberry beds we also made)

(Thanks to Ella for the photos – and to Ella, Alice, and Helen for their help with making the new beds!)