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old raised bed, ideas needed

bookmonsterbookmonster Posts: 399
in Garden design
Any ideas for this? I've been trying to turn it into a perennial edibles bed but the sorrel is only really harvestable in spring when leaves are young, and has turned into a weed, and the heatwave finished off my egyptian walking onion babies. It doesn't get a huge amount of light but isn't deep shade. 

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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Chard and rocket should be fine.
  • bookmonsterbookmonster Posts: 399
    Thanks. I don't grow salad leaves in the garden due to the neighbourhood cats, and have chard elsewhere.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Gooseberries?

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited September 2018
    Netting might work quite well with the fence right there. You could have a small fruit cage, type affair. Currents?
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    Cut the sorrel and it will come back with fresh leaves, after three weeks I finally managed to cut my lawns, and one of them had a huge patch of lovely young sorrel leaves in it. That dandelion at the back looks just the right age for eating :p
    Currents would work and you could probably keep the sorrel as well. You could put in a grape up the fence, for it's leaves not fruit if that's a shady area. If you remember to cut the seed head off Good king Henry would be a good choice. effectively perennial spinach and quite tall so out of cat toilet range.
  • bookmonsterbookmonster Posts: 399
    currants are an interesting idea, my husband and son are not big soft fruit fans so i will  do some research and get some redcurrant jelly to try.  Good king henry is also an interesting idea, I did come across it before. yes, part o f my lawn is now sorrel...
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