After finishing our patio terrace, it seemed appropriate that the next area of the garden that we should work on was the veggie patch. The steps down from the patio went nowhere, so the next step (excuse the pun) was to dig out a path around the raised beds that we wanted to install. Oddly enough, rather than building the beds out of wood first and then paving around them, we did it the opposite way: hubby measured out the size of the beds and we sliced away the turf from around the edges – dumping the excess soil onto the ‘veggie beds’ as we went.
The garden was particularly uneven in this area, undulating at all different angles, so we wanted to get a path that was a flat as possible. It would still slope away towards the end of the garden because that’s just how the land lies, but at least it would be a flat slope after we’d finished digging out the path! We lined each path around the ‘raised beds’ with weed-resistant membrane and as you can see from the photo we added edging down the left-hand side of the path to separate the grass lawn from the veggie patch. This wood came from B&Q and is actually supposed to be a handrail for the top of a decking ‘railing’- is that the right word? It therefore has a curved top edge, which looks great even at ground-level. The reason we bought this wood was because it was reduced to under £2 per 6ft piece and at the time we didn’t know what we would use it for, but knew that it was a garden bargain! These photos are very much a work-in-progress (excuse the mess!) so I will share the rest of the photos in my next blog post when the raised beds are finished.
