The Growing Garden
Rooted in Nature, Music and Walks Through Many Gardens
This was the view of the Growing Garden this afternoon – planters all filled with seeds or plugs (tomatoes, corn, beans, beetroot, carrots, parsnips and innumerable sorts of lettuces and chard) – seat base all ready to receive the seat, trellis ready for the mirror, the ground levelled with sand and soil all ready for …
We were delighted to have a visit ten days ago from Ecologist Michael all ready to help us plant out our first seeds in our new raised beds! The seeds had come from Garden Therapist Shey (see her at Keep Calm Garden ) – thank you Shey – and initially we used the beetroot and …
You will remember that we left the planters last week all ready to be preserved with some creosote (Stephen’s first job when they arrived). Then they would be ready for a good layer of rubble in the bottom of each. This very satisfactorily got rid of all the broken brick and stone lying around the …
First thing this Friday morning Steve and Stephen were on site coming to grips with the large pile of scaffolding boards that had been delivered earlier in the week. The idea was to make progress on our planters so that they could be positioned and filled first with rubble and then with soil. Once that …
Foreman Steve and worker Stephen arrived promptly on Friday morning and started clearing and sorting. As Steve said, he really couldn’t plan anything until he knew exactly what we had that we might be able to use and what he needed to get. So here they are clearing all the old broken bricks out of …
This is ‘Foreman’ Steve and Stephen, Foreman Steve and Urban Forest Tribe Paula’s son – making a very creditable fist of swinging that extremely heavy sledgehammer. Stephen is home schooled one day a week by his dad and for the next few weeks our ‘growing garden’ is going to be his classroom. Once that is …
