I finally made my raised bed planters for vegetable. I know, I know, I am too late for this year but at least they are done and I have a few seasons to enrich the soil before I plant my first crop. It is nice to see them in the garden just outside my bedroom so when I wake up and look out I feel I've achieved something that adds a bit more interest to my garden than just grass.

I'll need more soil to fill them, which I am looking for at the moment. I wanted raised beds because the soil in the garden is not great and as I get older I want to make it old-person accessible. It will also make an interesting little area with some sort of feature in the centre. Maybe a sundial or water feature. We'll see.

I had to work with the slant of the garden which made it difficult to level them all but it was the best place with lots of light and surrounded by my fruit trees on the west and east side.

Speaking of fruit trees the fruit is doing well but my sweet apple appears to be a bit sick. The leaves a the end of the branch are curling up and dying. The rest of the tree seems healthy enough with the fruit getting bigger each day and healthy-looking leaves. I thought it was a lack of water but I give it a good soak at least once a week if there hasn't been rain.

Maybe some of the gardeners of Hive know what is going on. I'm pretty new to all this and I really thought this would be plug and play.

Everything else in the garden is doing well and I hope this tree will somehow get better. Maybe it is a first-year teething problem. Any advice is welcome.