@confusinglady
confusinglady wrote:You're garden looks soooooo pretty.
Thank you it is, and the neighbours are all amazing (puts ours to shame
) and now there are horses on the land at the back - just stunning in the mornings with the sun coming up and fog, I keep running in to get a camera when I see them and the darn things move
We love it
confusinglady wrote:Wow I bet it is hard digging up the grass!
It was, that bit probably took over an hour but from what I read all the other options are quite a bit slower although I'm thinking I may take the risk on the weeds / left over grass roots causing problems with the rotorvator as I guess that is why we bought it
(got freaked out reading that that could happen!).
confusinglady wrote:The highest terrace looks like it could have been fruit originally maybe?
I'm really not sure it is much less 'grassy' there are some really thick clumps of grass, almost ornamental and some rhubarb did stick its head up at one point (I kept leaving it thinking it wasn't ready then it died
). I mowed half of it before I ran out of petrol so I'll try to get a better pic. i think I'll be leaving that at least for this year. You can get these huge packs of flower seeds to do a flower prarie here so I may even try sprinkling a couple of packets of that to keep off the weeds and look pretty!
confusinglady wrote:How much time are you realistically going to have to keep on top of it? I m just wondering if you re better off creating a bed half the size of the space available ( that will be hard enough work!) and keeping on top of that, allowing you to mow the grass and weed the rest. It's hard to keep on top of soil and plants especially in the summer when the moment you turn around the plants and weeds have sprouted!
Absolutely - very good advice, and that is why I have decided to not even try potatoes etc. I'm thinking of just doing the 1/2 of the greenhouse area that I've started (well 1/3) and then perhaps just the strip I've started on the next level so that would be 2 approximately 12m2 areas so that wouldn't even be half. I don’t' want to freak myself out the first year and we need to get some water sorted as well as it is dear here so need to harvest our own.
confusinglady wrote:Also you ll have the glut of veg to sort out, the fruit from your tress to sort, the other renovations in your house, the chickens, I imagine a steady stream of house guests, and a small toddler who doesn't want to play with that bit of soil and spade you've decided in your head whilst you weed ( been there!).
I know I know (and you forgot my new business as well
) - I can't think about it all or I'll