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Winter veg in the raised bed. I’m grateful for our temperate climate here and the variety of veg we can grow, however slowly.

The bed gets residual heat from the house wall which helps but we’ve only had one week of frosts and a couple of days of snow so far this winter. No nights colder than -5°C.
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A raised bed along the side of a house. It’s a rectangular box that’s netted with three doorways at regular intervals down the side. The door panels are also all netted. The net keeps out the pigeons and butterflies.

Each doorway opens onto a kneeling space where the entire bed in front and to the sides can be reached and worked without compacting the soil. The design is influenced by keyhole beds in permaculture.

It also means the beds can be worked without ever blocking the access pathway alongside the bed.

There are a lot of veg plants growing in the beds: kale, cabbage, bulls blood beetroot leaves, mooli, komatsuna, garlic chives, spring onions, pak choi, winter spinach, green wave mustard, land cress, Chinese cabbage, ischikrona bunching onions, golden frills mustard, cavolo nero kale, root parsley, Sicilian giant radish, green in snow mustard, Osaka purple mustard, mizuna, mibuna, purslane, winter radish, Japanese wintering onions and chicory. A brindle boxer dog is walking on the path alongside the raised bed with his head down.

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