One week, six tonnes of top soil, four tonnes of gravel and some autumn crops.

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Bunching onions to the fore.

An optimistic late sowing of runner beans growing over the arch, to be replaced by kiwis in November.

This bed was constructed earlier in the summer, and is already a jungle of borage, tomatoes (provenance unknown), asparagus peas, fennel (also unintended) and marjoram.