even closer to being a garden!
Duke made one long raised bed along one side which has neatly consumed all the "spare soil" from leveling the garden. I dug out the strawberries which really weren’t doing too well and shoved them into pots out of the way where they can either survive or not really (past caring, they were one of my more expensive wastes of time effort and money a few years ago…) whilst we raised up where they were to the right level and then Aprilia put marigolds and teddybear sunflowers in their place. Whiskers has made a skill out of being in the wrong place at the wrong time all day and thus has been regularly showered with soil. She eventually sought refuge in the compost bin! All we need now is a couple of weeks for the soil level to settle (a bit of rain at night would help, but not too much, we are talking clay here after all) and then a final leveling out, dressing with compost to give the grass seed something more pleasant to get going in, and then seeding. Jax, thanks for the tip with the fleece, I’ll look into how much it will cost to do that, I suspect that a bit of a blanket would probably help enormously and to be fair, anything trying to grow in our garden needs all the help it can get! Oh, and Duke needs to put the shed back up in it’s new location, and make a gate for the back so we don’t need to fetch bikes through the house, and then I get to settle down with the seed catalogues and some squared paper to draft out my dream cottage garden boarder!
I got the fleece from Wilcos and it didn’t cost much at all - don’t buy their pegs though, they were useless and all snapped
Comment by Jax — June 19, 2008 @ 7:41 pm