after day 8

Today was a bit of a clear up day

The huge pile of old sticks, wood and rubbish needed to be burned.....and burn it did and what a cloud of smoke went with it and the stink...ewwww

So its now down to a nice pile of ashes which we will now dig back into the ground.

We also went over the bit doug dug for us last week and weeded out all the roots and weeds and

made it into a pile ready to burn another day.

So i think we have just over half the garden double dug and weeded out the roots and raked over...its looking great if i do say so myself.

Amanda planted out some home grown pumpkins by amanda into our shape to get us started and they look lovely. So at least we can say we have planted something this year.

The square got another dig over and rake over to get it a little more level in preperation for our permanent fruit bed...and boy what a difference it is. The ground is lovely and the soil is really lush just ready for our fruit in the autumn

phew so that was our mornings work over and done with...

after day 7

Work started on the bit we call the square this morning.
We gave it a good dig, got rid of alot of the weeds and made a start to levelling out the ground.
The ground is beautiful and really soft....though a little stoney its looking good.
We have also decided its not where the garden shed and composters are going ...this was our plan.
It is now going to be out permanent fruit bed...we will have blackcurrants, redcurrants, gooseberries, strawberrys, raspberrys and fruit trees....phew sounds loads doesn't it...lol
It is going to be lovely as we plan to have a big fruit cage round the fruit to keep the birds and beasties out.

after day 6

Had a good dig of the ground again today.

We have moved all the sticks to the far end of the garden ready for burning along with a pile of roots to dry out to stick on the fire.....that is only half of the rubbish we need to burn..lol

I got my son michael to dig over the shape again and give it a level out to kill out weeds and the ground is lovely.

Here is a slightly better view of the garden which thanks to our friend Doug has been nearly all dug over. Another couple of digs and a clear up of any weeds and we should be sorted as to what we want it to look like.That in itself is a mammoth task as i have no idea how we are going to set it out...it has to be functional but pretty at the same time.We also need a heap of bark to make

the paths with and to cover all the weeds on the bottom path....so more blagging need to be done to get some bark and lengths of wood

Day 5 and a surprise for amanda

Well another sunny day and amanda is off to london for the weekend to watch madonna in concert. So while amanda is away i managed to get our friend doug to borrow a truck and we have just removed all the black bags of weeds.

It took 2 loads and we had over 200 bagsof stinking rotting weeds to load and unload.

So the garden is now black bag free and we can see whats what.

I managed to dig alittle more in front of the shape while waiting for the first load to be taken away, and managed to fillt he last 6 bags with roots so we could get them away in the second

load

The weeds are growing like the devil so we will have to get going and get the paths all watered with weedkiller to keep them at bay, i am thinking eventually we will fill the bottom one with bark and weed control fabric to make it look better and to keep the weeds at bay.

after day 4

The first thing we did this morning is to unload the car. I had a bench from home that hubby thought we could use in the garden so its sitting on the bottom path in shade under the big sycamore tree so we had at least some shade when the heat got too much and boy was it hot here today.

The big dig has begun

My friend Doug came up this morning with his fork and turned over a good part of the garden this morning.

On the left is the garden as it was and on the right it has been doug over for the weeds to dry before taking them off and bagging them for the tip. Although it doesnt look like much believe me he got aload of the garden dug today

I also moved the big pile of sticks over on the dug ground ready to burn in the next week or so.

While we were digging about in the garden hubby was putting up a fence in the square at the end where the compost bin is going
So these pictures is before the fence went up and after the fence is up...they are both still to be painted to match the gate but the square is beginning to take shape.

Then the next job was to remake the shape we have in the middle with newer wood and pegs.

It took forever...lol....

While waiting we gave it a good dig over and removed as much of the weeds and roots as we could.

Then after the shape was pegged and made we raked over the ground to let it dry out before we give it another dig and weed out.

So this pictures is of it before it was renewed and dug and the next is how it now looks.

Pretty good isnt it....it really does look very different to how it was this morning .