New herb area

Some of you may have noticed, that my Singer sewing machine stand had gone from the front garden. It is now in the back garden, near the fruit cage:

Left to right are: sage, spearmint, rosemary, apple mint and two different thymes, normal and lemon. We won't risk putting another pot on the foot treadle as Ruby might eat the contents. Outside the kitchen window is too windy and shady for them but hopefully, they will thrive here.

Last year, I dug up our sad looking rhubarb, split it into four and transplanted it into bed 2 of our raised beds. Up until now, it threw out some sorry looking leaves which just sat on the surface, looking odd. Now, after much needed rain, it is thinking about growing:

Doubt I'l get anything useful to eat this year though.

Bed 3 had strawberries put into it last year. This year, they are now starting to bulk up more, some even have a few flowers on them:

I think they should all be okay. The compost bins in each bed are really motoring now, full of worms and goodness. We don't do anything other than fill and toss them occasionally.

They have loads of holes drilled into them below surface and the worms can move freely in and out distributing the compost for us. That's the theory at least. We can, if we chose, take some compost from them to put a thin layer on top but we shall see how this, their second year, goes.