Category: Restoring the Garden

  • 016 A few days clearing the land

    016 A few days clearing the land

    It has been at least eight years since anyone cared for the piece of land that I am turning into a garden to grow food and spend afternoons with a good book in the hammock. Parts of the land are so overgrown that I couldn’t access them. Time for some clean-up. There are blackberries all…

  • 014 A temporary fix for the garden hut roof

    014 A temporary fix for the garden hut roof

    There are two huts in my new allotment garden, both with leaking roofs. I’ve decided that the A-frame is salvageable. Somehow.

  • 013 A first look at the new garden

    013 A first look at the new garden

    There is a small piece of neglected, overgrown land that I now call my own. The allotment garden we now rent is in pretty bad shape for growing food. Though most of the cherries are eaten, the trees and bushes are exciting.