A weekend gardening

We have started on the garden at last! Dad came and put the greenhouse up last year, but we decided to put in some flowerbeds this year. What a job it turned out to be, I must say lifting turf is mighty hard work. At least it was much easier than in the summer, but we had to work quickly to get it done before the light went. Here's Dan hard at work:




An arial picture of the earthworks:



The plan is to fill these beds with flowers this year (many seeds to be planted) and to put a vegetable patch on the left hand side of the garden. We have some more structural work to do on that side, so we will have a vegetable patch there this year, and then next year sort the mess out (take out the hedge on that side and take out the concrete drive and move the shed), and hopefully get an allotment.

We also decided to get rid of this terrible Russian Vine. Man that plant is an evil thing. We cut it back last year but it was still in all the hedge and all over the place. It can only have been a couple of years old at the most (the guy that we bought from planted it) but the trunk was a couple of inches thick in places. Unfortunately it is all tied up with a nice honeysuckle, so we will have to try and work out how to get it out. at the moment we have untangled about half of it, and cut it down to a stump, but we will have to dig it out. Nasty nasty plant.

Nice to be started though!!