Our currant progress

Yesterday Spuds and I set to and prepared our fruit bed ready to transpant the bushes early next week. It's not a huge bed, 1.8m x 2.5m, but that should be plenty for the 4 bushes we've got so far (a blackcurrant, a redcurrant and 2 gooseberries) and when two currently on order arrive we can expand it a little, if necessary. Even though it is quite small it took us the best part of a morning to remove the worst of the roots and dig in horsemanure and a layer of compost, before covering it all with black sheeting left behind by a previous tenant. So here it is and for those interested, if you click "read more" you will open a sideways view showing most of our plot.
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