The garden from scratch
Vinny Offline
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#141
By the look of it you should have no problem at all growing ericaceous plants! Cool
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Dug the trench a little deeper around the flower bed. And added content of trench to the bed and a bag of spent compost with perlite in it also just over 1kg of lime.

   

What do you mean my plants are going to drown    Rolleyes 

Put up a blow away tunnel. It’s just temporary but probably quite as while for temporary!

   

As you can see it tied down so it doesn’t disappear. Still got some more pinning down to do.

Put slabs inside so pots & fish boxes don’t sink.

   

Blue & red will be giant pumpkin, black 1 will be DFB other courgette, green will be Bombay bronze cockscomb. The space will be 6 chillis, 1 tomato, pomegranate, avocado and lemon.
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Your flower bed looks like a castle ruin, with moat. It needs a tower at one end and a flag on top. Big Grin
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Nearly forgot the very first thing to flower from something I planted on the bank at the front of the garden.

   

A very small aubrieta
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It may be small but its the start of something very big. Wink
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Taking a leaf out of veggies book. The cottage garden beds will be numbered  Big Grin . 

Bed one is now planted up .

   

Also planted some creeping sedum and bugle on the bank.
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I'm flattered. Big Grin
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Bob built little extensions to the fence to stop sheep and deer walking on the bank.

   

Also planted our first spuds in our own garden. About 20kg.

   

Planted in the spoil from the ditch. The ones that wouldn’t fit there got planted in the massive pile of sawdust. The selection of odd ones and twos of other varieties planted into spud bags.
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Love the Back scratchers for sheep and deer. Ingenious.
Your first Bradan potatoes will taste the best ever!
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That's a novel idea, using the deer cast offs to protect from deer Smile not something we can all incorporate due to lack of antlers around these parts, and thankfully lack of deer, although we have a couple of muntjac across in the railway embankment. So pretty too. Antler idea not muntjac, although they also look cute from a distance.
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