Gardening Days

14-16 April 2015

The ladder frame was ready to go, and we were now waiting for Rowan to find time to make the window carcasses.  The weather was lovely and we had a sudden spring urge to do some gardening.  Dave dug out the old compost bins up near where the camper truck was, and filled our raised bed ready for planting. 

 The raised bed with some winter-surviving parsley transplanted in.  Dave scraped up all the remaining compost and spread it around the new trees.

 Then I salvaged the pallets from the old compost site and moved them to make three new bins nearer to the kitchen door.  They don't look much, but the construction is pretty robust!

 Dave was also clearing and strimming the land, to improve our access.  The shot above is of one of our olive trees, thick with undergrowth.  I went in with branch loppers and secateurs to clear the ground, while Dave strimmed the path (shown below), giving us better access around the back of the house.

This is the same tree, after two hours battling with dusty pollen-filled shrubs and stubborn outgrowths.

 Our intended one day in the garden developed into three days.  With the wall infill and widening mostly done, it was clear there would be more than enough stone to be distributed about the land, so I continued with the long-neglected dry stone wall around the NW corner, and used the very big stones to mark the edge of the path above