It's going to take me until autumn to prepare the ground - but I was
wondering when it's done if it's better to have the bed as earth to
mulch over or to allow grass to grow and then mow it...

I assume grass will take water that the plant wants - which is my main
thought on it at the moment. Are there any other reasons - or is that
one more than enough?

I suspect I don't need more than 3 bushes either as there's a limit to
how much jam I can make! (Unless anyone has a recipe for vimto...)

(And for those interested this is a photo of our site at the moment -
10 plots on it
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...type=1&theater
It's on facebook so not sure if you need a fb account to see it - you
never used to but can't see the general share photo link)

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