Here are the completed beds at Blagdon nursery. Once the straw has become fully wet from teh rain (well we had a little anyway) we complete by covering over with cardboard and woodchip, by next sping when teh plants will all shoot up most of the straw and compost will have rotted down, leaving healthy open soils for the new plants. After so many years a school yard the heavy clay soils here are brick hard and mulch will feed it up and blanket out any weeds and grasses that were there before