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Thanks for the insights – i”ll limit my wooden surrounds to the potato towers (one of which I am going to use to grow carrots).
By the way, I did a test this morning of a small area of border (probably 2ft square) of how effective the autumn mulching was. The mulch was spent potato and tomato haulms buried under soil with a topcoat of 2 or 3 inches of horse manure which had plenty of straw in it. I wanted to see how many worms were in it and was amazed to reveal 4 or 5 absolutely giant worms, the biggest I’ve seen – about 12 – 15cm long and 1cm diameter when I dug the spot up (intention is to put a potato tower there). Similar numbers of worms were found in the ground when carrots were harvested on an undug bed, but their size in comparison was fairly weedy. Also the soil dug very, very easily, indicating that the bed is of a fine quality.
Safe to say that the mulch and manure appears to be fantastic for worms and hopefully the area will be productive this summer as I sow a few ‘extras’ like half a dozen celeries, one courgette and a few beet, alongside two potato towers placed at the sunniest spot we have in the garden.
There’s nothing like personal experience to ingrain what was simply a faith in your wisdom to date, is there??