The garden from scratch

My bulk bag of seed balls arrived today. Which spurred on some serious enthusiasm from Bob. Who set about removing big swaths of grass and rushes and hopefully some bracken from the wildflower area. Don’t be to impress. He cheated      . He was under supervision. He had to avoid patches where things had established or started to grow. When he’d finished I removed big stones and clumps of loose grass that had been left behind. Gave it all a rake over.
 Tomorrow there’s a few small patches I want to dig out by hand. Then I’ll see what other wildflower seeds I have and go scattering. 

Hopefully doing this rather harsh bit of weeding will give the flower seeds a fighting chance. I scattered lots of seeds last year ( about 30 packs, granted not all were the freshest seeds) and very few managed to fight off the grass. So drastic action needed to be taken. 

The varieties in the seedball mix.
Forget-me-not
Cornflower
Meadow cranesbill 
Wild clary
Selfheal
Common poppy
Corn marigold 
Great knapweed 
Sheep’s sorrel
Tufted vetch
Wild carrot
Common knapweed 
Cow parsley 
Field scabious 
Foxglove 
Great burnet
Yarrow
Red campion
Purple loosestrife 
Musk mallow

Plus the few packets of seeds I’ll mix with compost and scatter at the same time. If that lot grow. They should put on a banquet for wildlife, look pretty impressive and put up a good fight against the remaining grass, hopefully.