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The netting is mainly there in order to keep the cats out otherwise they think that I have provided them with the biggest cat litter tray in the world.
The individual beds are as follows with the plants embedded in them described:
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This bed contains a zucchini (there are two in the middle but one will be thinned), lettuce to the left-hand side which will grow in the space to be taken over by the zucchini, leeks in the two bottom right-hand squares, lettuce in the two squares above that, onions in the top middle right square (to the right of the lettuce) and mesclun mix in the two remaining squares.
Moving left to right and top to bottom, in column one we have spinach, turnips (just planted when this was taken), beets and turnips; in column two we have eggplant (under cloche for protection); column three is beans, and column four is peas.
This bed looks a bit messy, but that is due to the green manure currently rotting on the top. Anyway, this bed consists of corn and I have planted peas around the corn to wind up it as they grow, and also two pumpkin plants which will smother weeds with their leaves when they grow. Well, that's the plan.
Ok, this bed consists of basil in the bottom left-hand corner, with onions, scallions and swiss chard completing that row. Above the swiss chard we have (in ascending order) kale (just planted), lettuce and carrots, and on the top row we have two squares of radishes. These are a temporary planting to use the space that the zucchini (in the middle) will eventually grow in to.
This bed is a bit of a jumble at the moment as it will eventually be one of my tomato beds (when the plants are ready to move out). In the meantime there is garlic on the left-hand side and an assortment of other spare plants in the middle. I will pot these out over the coming days.
