Big leaps forward.
On the 2nd January Steve decided that given he hadn’t made any new year’s resolutions that 2007 was to be the year of the garden.
First he borrowed a relatives hedge trimmer and butchered the hedge. It took several hours and a saw was used more than the trimmer. That was piled up at the end of the garden.
The next weekend another relative came around with a strimmer and chainsaw to finish off the hedge. We don’t think that the neighbours were overly enamoured at the strimmer being fired up at 8am on a Saturday morning, but then they weren’t enamoured with the garden either so at least some good came.
That same day the digging started and over the next 5 weekends it was dug over. It turned out that the former owner had had a couple of greenhouses - we can vouch for this being true because we think we found half of the panes smashed under the ground. We found the old plant describing thingies buried with it all - they were using the greenhouses for growing some sort of tomatoes.
Other highlights included stacks of smashed tiles that some workman or other couldn’t be bothered to dispose of plus the usual piles of rubble, metal and two lengths of rope.
In the intervening time strong winds brought down the remainder of the delapidated fence, including the bit closest to the house.
You can see from the photos two rectangles marked out with wood - that is where we intend on putting the shed (furthest from the house) and the greenhouse.
Oh, and as an added bonus, you will noticed that we dug up the old concrete path - under about 10cm of soil by the end of the garden, you had no idea a path was there from the 30th August photos eh?
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