Sam your garden has come on really well, love the sink and Kevin looks happy , Nutcutlet what a lovely dell, lots of work though, clearing it all is the key but if your anything like me I get impatient with the preperation and want it done 'now' lol.
Busy-Lizzie that is a lovely shed, my clematis have all died back but hopefully they will come back as good this year.
I really enjoy looking at pics of your gardens it gives so much inspiration and the before and afters are great.
I have some hard landscaping to do this year, want to move and repair one of my sheds, create more privacy in the garden as we are mid terraced and overlooked. its taken me a while to figure out how to work with the huge tree's in my relatively small garden and the slopes, we don't have a single level area in the whole garden, but this year, thanks to this forum and books I've been reading I think I've finally got it.
I'll post up some picture of my projects as I go and would love to see everyone elses, at least we can offer one another positive encouragment and advice and that is priceless
Last July I got an allotment down here on the Somerset Levels - I live in a flat with no garden, so I was very excited. This is the allotment when I took it on:
I managed to clear most of it, but then the rains came! The site is very near a river and the flood waters have been lapping at it for much of the intervening time. It's a clay soil, being river silt, so impossible to get on there. I am feeling very dispirited at the moment as the rain does not seem to want to stop! I work full time and live alone, so am a bit time poor, especially at this time of year with the dark evenings.
This is more or less how it is at the moment (my camera uses film, so I have a time delay while I get them developed - RIP Jessops):
So this year I am planning to get something done - not entirely sure when I shall be able to get started, though. It appears to be raining again......sigh.
What a nice project Gold and welcome to the forum, there is lots of advice and help available here .
I too have the constraints of working full time and long hours, it is unfortunately a necessary evil for me and I miss my garden, I've sat doing nothing all morning after feeding the birds and watched Mr Blackbird tucking into his grapes, lovely lazy saturday mornings... keep us posted with your progress, hopefully as Nutcutlet says we'll have a better gardening year this year
I am sitting in my flat drinking tea and watching the rain pour down outside, so I doubt whether I shall be allotmenteering today! Good weather forecast for tomorrow, but it really needs a fortnight at least to dry out down there - dig too deep and you hit the water table.
Some lovely garden projects in this thread - good luck with them all.
Don't know what your plans are Gold but if you have a look in the 'potting shed' a lot of members here have been seed swapping , the price of stamp is much cheaper than a packet of seeds and members here have some lovely varities flowers and veg
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Sam your garden has come on really well, love the sink and Kevin looks happy
, Nutcutlet what a lovely dell, lots of work though, clearing it all is the key but if your anything like me I get impatient with the preperation and want it done 'now' lol.
Busy-Lizzie that is a lovely shed, my clematis have all died back but hopefully they will come back as good this year.
I really enjoy looking at pics of your gardens it gives so much inspiration and the before and afters are great.
I have some hard landscaping to do this year, want to move and repair one of my sheds, create more privacy in the garden as we are mid terraced and overlooked. its taken me a while to figure out how to work with the huge tree's in my relatively small garden and the slopes, we don't have a single level area in the whole garden, but this year, thanks to this forum and books I've been reading I think I've finally got it.
I'll post up some picture of my projects as I go and would love to see everyone elses, at least we can offer one another positive encouragment and advice and that is priceless
Hello folks. A new poster here.
Last July I got an allotment down here on the Somerset Levels - I live in a flat with no garden, so I was very excited. This is the allotment when I took it on:
I managed to clear most of it, but then the rains came! The site is very near a river and the flood waters have been lapping at it for much of the intervening time. It's a clay soil, being river silt, so impossible to get on there. I am feeling very dispirited at the moment as the rain does not seem to want to stop! I work full time and live alone, so am a bit time poor, especially at this time of year with the dark evenings.
This is more or less how it is at the moment (my camera uses film, so I have a time delay while I get them developed - RIP Jessops):
So this year I am planning to get something done - not entirely sure when I shall be able to get started, though. It appears to be raining again......sigh.
What a year to start goldi. It can only get better now
In the sticks near Peterborough
I do hope so, but the fields are still flooded down there.
What a nice project Gold and welcome to the forum, there is lots of advice and help available here
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I too have the constraints of working full time and long hours, it is unfortunately a necessary evil for me and I miss my garden, I've sat doing nothing all morning after feeding the birds and watched Mr Blackbird tucking into his grapes, lovely lazy saturday mornings... keep us posted with your progress, hopefully as Nutcutlet says we'll have a better gardening year this year
Thanks for the welcome.
I am sitting in my flat drinking tea and watching the rain pour down outside, so I doubt whether I shall be allotmenteering today! Good weather forecast for tomorrow, but it really needs a fortnight at least to dry out down there - dig too deep and you hit the water table.
Some lovely garden projects in this thread - good luck with them all.
Don't know what your plans are Gold but if you have a look in the 'potting shed' a lot of members here have been seed swapping , the price of stamp is much cheaper than a packet of seeds and members here have some lovely varities flowers and veg
I'm considering a rice paddy at the moment!
Apart from that, I have onion sets and garlic planted. The onions are shooting.