Okay family and any others who have expressed an interest as to the goings on down the bottom of the garden....
The overview as a starter! You can't actually tell from this angle how much flatter the garden is in that area now, as opposed to the originally sloping aspect. You can see the two chicken houses on the right (one is empty at the moment but we intend to buy some more chickens in May/June )and matching greenhouses on the left. Some ideas we have are to try and create different "rooms" in the garden and to discover more about introducing Permaculture into our thinking as we continue to plan for the next stage. The earth in the foreground will be grassed over for now.
http://www.heathcote.org/PCIntro/4Principles.htm
Railway sleepers made into stairs and walls, creating a rustic feel. By the time I am at the bottom of these, I can hardly be seen from the house!
The area with the sun dial is going to become a pond which we hope will encourage frogs who in turn will eat the slugs on the vegetable patch....we live in hope!!!
We won't get the glass into the second greenhouse, this year, but it will still be used for climbing peas and french beans in the meantime. You can see the Columnar apple, pear and greengage trees now have their own raised bed. This area in the foreground will be grassed over.
A little path created so that we get walk between both chicken houses. We will be buying a water butt to catch the rain off the roof which will be used for the chicken's water. It will be situated on the far paving slab where the roofs meet. I'm hoping that the sweetpeas I've planted in the pot will climb up and look beautiful as well as smell divine! They are supposed to be highly fragrant. I never seem to be that successful with them, but every year I try again. They are my favourite summer flower!
Rhubarb is on its way, as are the climbing peas, just about visible!
Three redesigned deeper than before (to redistribute some of the extra soil) raised beds.
A few bulbs to start us off. We will buy a sack in the autumn and get planting for a really beautiful show next Spring.
The Gunnera has been repositioned, it is already thriving on the new site. It will look like this:
Well hopefully not nearly as huge!!!!!
Dolly our Cream Legbar who lays blue eggs.
Connie, our Silverlaced Wyandotte and Xena our Light Sussex, aged 6 years and still laying most days!
The sundial that we found in the garden when we moved in, back in 1987, at last has a place to stand after all this time!
The sweetpeas beginning!
And finally, Mabel who now has a retirement home where she can keep a beady eye on what we're watching on TV! Not too impressed when she decides to wake us up some mornings...our bedroom is just above!
Hope this gives you a little idea of the beginnings!
The overview as a starter! You can't actually tell from this angle how much flatter the garden is in that area now, as opposed to the originally sloping aspect. You can see the two chicken houses on the right (one is empty at the moment but we intend to buy some more chickens in May/June )and matching greenhouses on the left. Some ideas we have are to try and create different "rooms" in the garden and to discover more about introducing Permaculture into our thinking as we continue to plan for the next stage. The earth in the foreground will be grassed over for now.
http://www.heathcote.org/PCIntro/4Principles.htm
Railway sleepers made into stairs and walls, creating a rustic feel. By the time I am at the bottom of these, I can hardly be seen from the house!
The area with the sun dial is going to become a pond which we hope will encourage frogs who in turn will eat the slugs on the vegetable patch....we live in hope!!!
We won't get the glass into the second greenhouse, this year, but it will still be used for climbing peas and french beans in the meantime. You can see the Columnar apple, pear and greengage trees now have their own raised bed. This area in the foreground will be grassed over.
A little path created so that we get walk between both chicken houses. We will be buying a water butt to catch the rain off the roof which will be used for the chicken's water. It will be situated on the far paving slab where the roofs meet. I'm hoping that the sweetpeas I've planted in the pot will climb up and look beautiful as well as smell divine! They are supposed to be highly fragrant. I never seem to be that successful with them, but every year I try again. They are my favourite summer flower!
Rhubarb is on its way, as are the climbing peas, just about visible!
Three redesigned deeper than before (to redistribute some of the extra soil) raised beds.
A few bulbs to start us off. We will buy a sack in the autumn and get planting for a really beautiful show next Spring.
The Gunnera has been repositioned, it is already thriving on the new site. It will look like this:
Well hopefully not nearly as huge!!!!!
Dolly our Cream Legbar who lays blue eggs.
Connie, our Silverlaced Wyandotte and Xena our Light Sussex, aged 6 years and still laying most days!
The sundial that we found in the garden when we moved in, back in 1987, at last has a place to stand after all this time!
The sweetpeas beginning!
And finally, Mabel who now has a retirement home where she can keep a beady eye on what we're watching on TV! Not too impressed when she decides to wake us up some mornings...our bedroom is just above!
Hope this gives you a little idea of the beginnings!
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