The beds so far mostly planted up with peas and some potatoes, also transplants.

We inherited a large strawberry bed at the fence, which is flowering, At the end of this bed I stuffed in my transplanted perennials. We have continued from there with several more beds. The ideal is to have the paths properly separated from the beds with edging in the future. As I had to get peas in quickly, new beds were made just by skimming off grass and then planting up. This is quick but it does rob an inch or so of topsoil.
For the more demanding crops like squashes I am making a lasagna style bed at the top with upturned turfs from the beds, newspaper on top, a thin layer of soil on the top and now also a thick layer of grass. I will plant through this and hope that weeds will be moderately under control.

I hope this will not become a problem, but we seem to have any number of cockchafers and also plenty of the smaller rose chafers in the beds that were grass until now.
We inherited a large strawberry bed at the fence, which is flowering, At the end of this bed I stuffed in my transplanted perennials. We have continued from there with several more beds. The ideal is to have the paths properly separated from the beds with edging in the future. As I had to get peas in quickly, new beds were made just by skimming off grass and then planting up. This is quick but it does rob an inch or so of topsoil.
For the more demanding crops like squashes I am making a lasagna style bed at the top with upturned turfs from the beds, newspaper on top, a thin layer of soil on the top and now also a thick layer of grass. I will plant through this and hope that weeds will be moderately under control.
I hope this will not become a problem, but we seem to have any number of cockchafers and also plenty of the smaller rose chafers in the beds that were grass until now.
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