Messed Up on the Grass Order

So I ordered the grass for our vegetable patch. Thought we would be getting 16 square metres to cover the whole patch but we ended up with 16 metre rolls :) not quite what we were expecting so another order is in for next week.  On the plus side Lee has managed to fix all the awkward patches and I've been smashing slate tiles to go around the Rowan Trees.

Lee Watering the Patches in the Rain

Awkward Patching

Nice green corner

Two Rowan Trees with Wooden Edging

Painted Wooden Edging

Smashed Slate Tiles

As we have loads of old wood, these are being put to use to edge the borders, fix fences are other useful things.

The Vegetable Patch

We were putting this off as it is such a big job. The whole lot needs to be cleared as we are laying down grass for low maintenance ... but I need to save the plants first and dig out all those weeds.

One side of the Vegetable Patch 

Section of the Vegetable Patch 

The Beginning

Another Section Clear

And Another

Almost Done

Finished and Levelled

... and 2 Rowan Trees planted

Plants saved and most went to good homes including the local garden centre.

Lovely Rocks

Another patch cleaned and we found lots of lovely Big Rocks. Really needed to clean this border so that we can plan our archery range. Targets are going to go on the side of the Garage which means we will be shooting down towards the targets. At least now we can see what's going on. There's lots of Crocosmia and plants emerging, which will stay on the left and lots of Ivy and a low Conifer on the right, this will stay also and some of the rocks will be put back once we are finished. We are planning to put some steps down the middle. Lee found 4 frogs!

Lovely Big Rocks

Border Trimmed Back

Little Orchard Update #1

The Magnolia tree is out of it's pot with a little brute force from Lee. John the Gargoyle is guarding the patch and the little Robin likes to perch on his head. Dividing fence is down which opens it up a lot. Weed surpressing membrane is down and wood bark has been spread. I've bought a Cherry Tree and my favourite Eating Apple 'Egremont Russet'. So hopefully we can just leave this patch until we are ready to trim the hedge. We now have 9 Fruit Trees, 7 Fruit Bushes, a Magnolia and Little Weeping Cherry. I'm not sure what the bushes are, the leaves are just coming out but I think we have a Gooseberry Bush and some Blackcurrants.

Half Done, then I ran out of bark

Here we go again

All Done

Edges left clear for wood border

Left Side

Right Side

Before Left

Before Right

After

Pond Border

Left hand side of Garden

This left hand section of the garden is very uneven and muddy, we are hoping to smarten it up a bit by using some of the slabs left over from the patio project and some hexagonal slabs that were in the middle of the lawn. Mum has been cleaning up the border. We also need some space for the Washing. Not very exciting at the moment .... but my next project is the border around the pond.

I'm looking forward to making the pond look nice. We have some massive rocks that are going to look great in the border above the slate retaining wall and then I can save some more plants and put them in there too. I've also got some lovely perennial poppies that can spread and fill the gaps.

We've got frog spawn and 2 frogs. One is blind, how he/she manages I just don't know but we have to look out for him (I'll call him/her him for the moment) when walking on the grass as he likes to sit on the lawn. The previous owner mentioned him, I wonder how old he is (will have to give him a name). I think he was called Stevie.

Border on Left of Pond

Top End of Border, Lee's Gate

Large Rocks for the Border

Small Pond

Needs tidying up

New Life

Blind Frog