The Growing Garden
Rooted in Nature, Music and Walks Through Many Gardens
Yes, things certainly moved on last week! Here are Steve and Stephen fixing our new pergola, created out the off cuts of wood left by the builders, and complete with another huge planter. We are planning to grow a vine up and over the pergola and I am not sure whether to put its feet …
The last time you saw this planter, Sue was pricking out tiny chard seedlings on the right and setting radish, rocket and lettuce seeds. Now look at it! And this picture was taken several days ago. All of those little plants are now significantly bigger – so significantly much bigger that on Monday I am …
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 …
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 …
