2026 - Plans for next year

Lot of plans . If they happen next year or not is anyone’s guess.
My recent plan to split a couple of the new raised veg beds into 4 for my mint plants to have a little more freedom. Has morphed into using big plastic barrels. The plan is the barrel will cover the same area of space as a raised bed would have.

Grow lists, not a clue yet. Hopefully maybe a second tunnel put up. But I honestly don’t know what will happen.

I’m sure I’ll be back with more ideas, plans, details in the coming weeks,  months. At present I’m very happy to say I’m too busy working on the house to think about the garden much.

Nothing above as far as plans go have changed. What has changed is time scale. House first. I’m happy to do nothing in the garden this year. Other than keep on top of what’s already there. I’m not even thinking of sowing any seeds at all ! (this will very probably change, as I have the breaking strain of a melting kitkat). 
one quite interesting (mildly terrifying) thing we’ve worked out this week. The amount of gravel that’s going to be needed in the garden. Bob worked out just the area the 2 big tunnels & the path between them. Will take 8 x 18 ton lorry loads! That’s digging down just 1ft. This depth is needed to get all root out and so there’s enough gravel for the water to flow through easily without coming to the surface. Deeper would be better. Just can’t afford to do that. They’ve grown rest of the paths and inside little tunnel will probably be very close to the same amount again.

Wow! That's a lot of gravel. You'd better get down to collecting small stones in your spare time     I'm sure the house will benefit from your time even if the garden doesn't. I'm looking forward to your updates along the way.