Habe you been there long, and what was it like when you got there - have you had to do lots of things to it. Love the stone of your house too - all mellow.
You should have got MD to come visit on his French adventure !! Beats the silly garden with all the wasted veg any day
Thank you Chicky. I've been here since 1990. The house hadn't been lived in for 6 years and then only as a holiday home. It's an old farmhouse. The garden was the old farmyard but the previous people had pulled down the farm buildings and terraced it with 2 dividing walls. It was full of grass, nettles and brambles when we came. The topsoil was very thin as the house is built on rock and the farmyard was under the now lawn.
We had some topsoil delivered and a garden company to turn it into lawn and a professional to make the terrace. I dug all the beds afterwards. They didn't use weedkiller, just rotavated and flattened it so all the bindweed, couchgrass, nettles, brambles etc were still there but broken up into even more plants. Still having trouble with it! The topsoil was rubbish, full of clay,stones and roots. I spent the first winter picking it out before the garden people came in the spring.
The house was a mess too, so lots of work there as well. But I've had 23 years to do it in!
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
OW you have been busy - where are all the seeds you have been growing going to go?
Lizzie - it is an a inspiration to see what can be achieved! We have been here 6 Years now, and some parts of the garden are starting to come together, but others have a long way to go. I love seeing what others have done with their gardens.
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Lizzie - your garden is SO beautiful.
Habe you been there long, and what was it like when you got there - have you had to do lots of things to it. Love the stone of your house too - all mellow.
You should have got MD to come visit on his French adventure !! Beats the silly garden with all the wasted veg any day
Thank you Chicky. I've been here since 1990. The house hadn't been lived in for 6 years and then only as a holiday home. It's an old farmhouse. The garden was the old farmyard but the previous people had pulled down the farm buildings and terraced it with 2 dividing walls. It was full of grass, nettles and brambles when we came. The topsoil was very thin as the house is built on rock and the farmyard was under the now lawn.
We had some topsoil delivered and a garden company to turn it into lawn and a professional to make the terrace. I dug all the beds afterwards. They didn't use weedkiller, just rotavated and flattened it so all the bindweed, couchgrass, nettles, brambles etc were still there but broken up into even more plants.
Still having trouble with it! The topsoil was rubbish, full of clay,stones and roots. I spent the first winter picking it out before the garden people came in the spring.
The house was a mess too, so lots of work there as well. But I've had 23 years to do it in!
The little one loves to water my allotment she also does sowing seeds and planting and she is only 4.
Some will have seen this one before...this is what it was when I moved in in 2011
And this is it so far now. Just put steps in at the bottom
OW you have been busy - where are all the seeds you have been growing going to go?
Lizzie - it is an a inspiration to see what can be achieved! We have been here 6 Years now, and some parts of the garden are starting to come together, but others have a long way to go. I love seeing what others have done with their gardens.
Danny - what a cute smile ! Bet she keeps you entertained
This is my sons back garden which took my 6 months to transform.
It had 30 tree stumps in and was covered in ground elder,I now use it as my allotment
wow to Oakley Witch, Busy-Lizzie and dannyboy10.
You lot have been busy!
This was todays efforts...new steps in from the workshop end of the garden...
And my new Bug Ritz Hotel. Quite enjoyed doin this one lol