We also got more pea gravel and covered the rest of the garden with that. I think we need a few more bags just to finish off.
We have built a flimsy support to fasten the mesh to that will hopefully stop the cats from using the beds as a litter tray. I’m not really happy with them, I want something a bit more stable but we did just use what we had lying around.
We also got more pea gravel and covered the rest of the garden with that. I think we need a few more bags just to finish off. We have started to put down some pea shingle in our garden, We also have made our rectangular plant bed into two triangular plant beds, This has made it look more interesting and our neighbours like it too. Another hot sunny day today, So we spent the day in the garden. Our first raised bed did not succeed, This we think was down to the fact we laid some clear poly over the bed to protect it but we still had slugs getting in and cats walking over it, So we decided to take up that bed and make another in it’s place and placed the little green house cover we got over that. The green thing in the background is another green house thing that my mother gave us. We have got some more seeds planted in that. In the second picture on the right we have made another raised bed for the bigger veg when the time is right. The pond area is coming on quite nice I like this bit of the garden, It’s now looking a bit more wild and we have lots if insects around it, We have 9 tadpoles, 2 newts, 1 leech and loads of little black things that i don’t know the name of
Yesterday we where given a huge plant for our tiny pond, So today I decided to split it up into smaller plants suitable for our pond, I then felt a strange tingling feeling on one of my fingers, I looked at where it was tingling and saw a leech stuck to my finger. ARRRRH. I had to get a photo of it before it sucked me dry of my bodily fluids. We have made a plot to plant our vegetables, We planted our first ones today they are rocket, onion, cabbage, leek and purple broccoli. Nothing has grown yet and it's been ages since we planted them, must be about half an hour ago. Anyway I am looking forward to seeing them grow, Any plant I've ever had has always died but Louise has had more luck than me. We've had a black plastic compost bin for about 10 months now and we checked it the other day to find the compost was slimy, I did a search on Google about what could be done, Some one said that if we put wood chippings into it it would help, So with us doing some woodturning we had a good pile of sawdust and we decided to make another compost bin, So we built a wooden frame around the black bin and nailed some wicker panels to it, Then Louise took the black bin out (I was at work at the time) she said it absolutely stunk, Anyway she added the sawdust and mixed it in now a week later it is looking a lot better and not as slimy as it was, we will keep adding sawdust to it and turning it over regularly. Had a day off work today because my car had broken down and was in the garage. So me and Louise decided to do something in the garden. We had this tree given to us and we decided to plant it today.
First Louise built a small stone wall to hold the banking up then we planted the tree in front of that. We also thought we should change the pond water, because a few weeks ago we got hold of some frog spawn and put that in the pond, After a couple of weeks we couldn't see anything living in the pond and today decided to drain it, When we got to the bottom of the pond we saw something move and it was the tadpoles then we saw a couple of newts, so we thought we would leave what was in the bottom of the pond and just fill it back up with water. I got some photos of the newt. Larger photos of the newt are in the photo section. We are doing something with the garden, Our aim to make it look nice by using as much as we can from reclaimed items. We have used pallets to make a fence, I got hold of some wicker panels from the skip at work.
Someone down the street had chopped a couple of trees down and Louise dragged them home and has cut them up to use them as borders for her plant bed, All the stone came out of the garden. So weather permitting we will gradually do bits here and there and I will post then here. |
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