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 .

after day 3

This is a new fence we had put up at the back of where our compost bins and shed are going to go. This is a square that we cant do much with so we are going to weed it then try and flatten it out.
It has now been stained the same colour of the gate by my youngest son scott

This is views of the path round the top of the garden which we can now see once we gave it a good dig and got rid of all the weeds and roots. It really defines the garden now and we can see it taking shape and of course have somewhere we can walk now

after day 2

Another day on the garden

We decided that we would try and define and clear up the paths and steps round the garden.

At the far end of the garden there are steps from top to bottom.

In the morning i decided to clear the steps and we found a nice step of steps with chuckies on them (stones) and as the stairs are good we have decided to keep th em as they now are apart from putting down some weedkiller to keep them looking good.

We then cleared up the rest of the weed piles and bagged and added them to our already large pile of black bags.

It is coming together nicely isnt it..lol

after day 1

This is the garden before we started to clear up

This is the garden after we bagged up most of the rows of weeds.

We bagged up and moved all the weeds into bags and boy was it a messy day for me and amanda we got scratched, stung and dirty but we managed to get most of the rows bagged up.This is how much bags we got the first day and how it looked after our morning of work.

Only working in the mornings as the heat is too much in the afternoon and it gives us the afternoon to get cleaned up and sort out our own gardens..lol

The difference is subtle but it is beginning to take shape slowly but surely

garden gate

with the garden being on a public road and having no gate we decided to get a gate put up. This is what it looks like before the gate....once the gate is made ...and......the finished stained gate

This gate will keep the local kids out as well as keeping the dog walkers and their dogs out but most importantly it keeps our garden safe from being damaged or vandalised.

Our New walled garden

WOW we have just taken over a plot of land we hope to turn into a garden allotment type thing...

this is how it looked when we took it over.

The owner had strimmed all the weeds and green rubbish and had raked it into piles.

Ready for us to make a good start in clearing it all up.

we plant to have fruit and veggies in our garden and hope to get the garden into a good shape