Preparing the Last Vegetable Bed

We've now emptied the last (rectangular) vegetable bed, having removed the crocosmia, an errant iris, and the stooled willow. Next, we added about fifteen barrows of topsoil (I lost count, but it was about that many), to bring the level up, having spread out the manure we'd left at one end. I then drove the wooden posts into the edges, and strung wire between these to form the support for the fleece cover; then we attached the water nozzles to the posts, and connected them to the irrigation supply line. We then put fleece over the cage, punched holes in its border, and set the reinforcing eyelets in the holes, before nailing in the respective hooks (into the outside of the bed). Finally, we put reinforcing tape on the fleece where it goes over the posts, to minimize the risk of splits.

And then we collapsed on to the sofa.