What I need to tackle this time.

Well here are a few photos of the garden...spot the dalek if you can!

This all needs digging over:More of that area:


End of garden:

So loads to do! All seems very scary but hopefully should start seeing results soonish.

Whoops!

Well the garden sort of stalled big time last year. Now the greenhouse isn't accessible, I have no-where to plant anything and it's all a big mess! Once again though I have big plans for it, although I tend to have big plans every year.

First thing is to try to get the greenhouse glass completely in and then try to clear the benches. I also want to clear the bit where the herb bed was and put a couple of raised beds in there, one for herbs and one for root veg. I have some peas as well and I'm trying to decide whether they'll fit in there as well. Once the back of the garden is cleared and the pond moved I'll have more room for a couple more raised beds.

Just uploading photos now. Loads to do, never enough time to do it all in!

Trying again!

Ok so finally the sun is shining and it's not too cold outside so I'm beginning to think about actually doing something with the garden. Especially as the children want to go outside and play.

Today I'm going to take photos, measure up and decide what plants I want to save before we start attacking it all.

Bit miserable about it all but hopefully in the next two or three months something will happen to it.

New year...new start!

It's that time of year when I've started thinking about the garden again. It all went a bit pear shapped last year when I couldn't do much because of hip problems in pregnancy, and then by the time I had had my baby and I was ready to do something it was all a bit late anyway!

So my plan this week is to take stock of everything and draw up an action plan, and I might think about pruning my herbs as they're all looking a bit shabby at the moment.

Photos will follow!

It's been very quiet around the garden recently!

Mainly because of the pouring rain and the fact that with my hips I haven't been up to making the treacherous trek across the muddy lawn to get anywhere!

I'm hoping that tomorrow sometime the stronger half will be able to use some paving stones we have to make a path up the garden to the greenhouse. Which will be great as it means I'll be able to go out in all weathers and not have to worry about serious injury on the way!

Apart from that not much is happening at all, the garlic has started sprouting, the potatoes are ready to be planted (though need to make room for about 3 bin sacks) and the weather seems stable enough to start sowing everything else!

It's hard though knowing when to plant as I still don't have a date on which I'll have somewhere to put all these seedlings! I am hoping that by the time the baby is here (around 7 weeks now) I will have at least one bed ready to plant into and the children will have their square garden area.

A nice day at last!

So we're about to go out and attempt some gardening. The children are already outside getting covered in mud so it'll be baths all round later :o)

Brambles/ivy here we come...muhahahahah!

Update - argh! The ivy seems to be backing down but the brambles are a bit too much for me I'm afraid :o( Got to remember that little and often will get me there eventually!

My lawn plan!

After walking around the garden and thinking what a muddy patch my lawn is I've decided to get rid of most of it! I have talked to the children about it as I think lawns are mainly for children to run around on and they agree with me!

So I'm shrinking the lawn to a small patch which hopefully will be easier to keep green and the rest is either being barked or made into flower beds. The trampoline will be put in a permanent place with half of it buried in the ground (the ground we dig out will be used in our raised beds) and a fence put around with climbers growing up. Under the swing area will be bark and next to that will be a den for the children. A path will go through the garden to the back area and I'm thinking of putting arches over some of it for added interest.

Hopefully it'll look a lot better and in the winter I can more easily fence the lawn off from the dog so I don't end up with holes and muddy patches!