Creating a Fruit Garden
Clearing an overgrown outdoor space to make a productive fruit garden
Posts about how we turned an overgrown wilderness that hadn’t been touched for 20+ years into a productive vegetable garden, fruit garden, and chicken haven!
June 2015 Garden Update
A few people have been asking how our garden looks this year, one year on from the Big Dreams, Small Spaces reveal, and to be honest we’re quite a way behind on last year due to work commitments and other things, but here are a few quick snaps from this …
Creating Paths through the Garden
I’ve been creating various posts over the last few weeks detailing how we have renovated our garden from an overgrown wilderness into a productive vegetable plot! Once the greenhouse and raised beds were in place, we needed to plan how we would link all the parts of the garden together …
Constructing Raised Beds
Once we’d planned our vegetable garden, the biggest challenge was plotting and building our raised beds. We rotivated the land that we’d earmarked for the veg beds, as it was covered with old turf and years of weeds, roots and ivy. We had quite a large area to use for …
Building the Greenhouse
Once we’d finalised the layout of the vegetable garden, our first challenge was to get the main feature installed and begin building the greenhouse. Positioning the Greenhouse We had originally intended to position the greenhouse in a far corner of the vegetable garden, giving little thought to how it would …
Designing and Planning a Vegetable Garden
At the time that we bought our house with its overgrown wilderness of a garden, we had no idea how much outdoor space we actually had, but we were certain that whatever the size, a large part of it would be taken up by raised beds and become a productive …
Clearing the Wilderness to Make Room for our Vegetable Garden
When we bought a derelict house and overgrown garden in August 2013, we were actually far more interested in what we could make of the outdoor space, rather than just focusing on inside! Both the front and back gardens were so neglected that we didn’t even know how much land …
TIMBER!
Some very exciting things have been happening in the garden this week! The two big imposing trees that have been left to grow out of control and overpower the garden, are coming down! Tree 1 – The Giant Conifer Tree 2 – The Overgrown Christmas Tree I’m gutted that I …
Renovation Project!
Since we got back from our stint in France we’ve been renting a lovely cottage on a farm, which has totally suited our needs as we’ve had a busy few years workwise and otherwise, but the one thing we were missing was our own garden to be able to get …