Setting the scene

Sunday 21 Feb 2016

I'm not very good at remembering to do the 'before' shots for 'before-and-after' comparisons; so I made an effort and took some location shots of our battered field before the planting begins.

 From the left - facing east, grove of four mature olives.  Moving round, the annual veggies raised beds ...

 ... continuing round to two more mature olives, and two young ones (not very visible), towards ...

 ... the main forest garden area, behind the old pear tree in the foreground, and in the distance, the terraced beds for Moringas to the right of the track;

 ... and sweeping round to the scruffy area (still a work zone) in front of the house

 Lots of work done on the first terraced bed: below the log, I dug out an infiltration 'swale' - a ditch to be filled with mulch to hold water for the plants on the raised 'berm' a soil mound to keep the tree stems from rot.  First tree in is an apricot that we transplanted from a spot too near the track.

 Further down the bed, a tiny Moringa under a cloche (cut off 5 litre wine container); and two roses in the skinny end of the bed.

Another location shot - from what will be the main gate in the SW corner