First bed

So this is a bit late in the year to be starting, but the weather has been strange. It's quite cold this morning which helped me feel ok about brig so late. So the first bed is basil and onions. The north quadrant will be corn tomato and beans, all new world plants. Don't have plans for the rest of it yet...

Now it's off to the river to fetch a pail of water.

Cowslip and columbines

Yellow cowslip, blue columbine may 15, 2016

Preparations and layout

So I botched the layout a little. My intention was for it to be 15'wide and 23' long, but it's not quite square so one end is 14'. I'm not going to worry about it too much.
The stakes I'm using for layout are sticks harvested from the coppice, which is a great technique used frequently in the Middle Ages, and a few short lengths of rattan, suitable for the current Middle Ages

Outer beds

His is what's I the outer beds, starting at the gate and counterclockwise:
Asparagus
Daisy
Iris
Sage
Pinks
Cowslip
Forgot the name of that one
Strawberry
Daffodil
Tansy
Chamomile
Wormwood
Chive
Brassica
Lilac
Rose
Elderberry
Melissa
Raspberry
Grape hyacinth
Purple coneflower
Larkspur

Daffodil

Bugle

Aka ajuga

Seating the brace

For a project this small the brace isn't going to be doing all that much, this is mostly for practice. And because it looks cool.