Monday 30 April 2007

Seagrass

...is the colour that Corrina painted the shed.



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For my birthday Corrina bought me a


Cold Frame :-)
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And Then We Changed a Few Things


First I built some raised beds and we filled them with Denise's Delight and Corrina planted bulbs to provide some spring colour while we wait for the veg season to begin.

I started to plant the border...

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View from the patio... except everything from the patio is sitting in the garden.
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Clean lines


Once, I cleaned out all the weeds between the paving slabs. It hasn't happened since.

Sunday 29 April 2007

In the beginning...


...well, not quite the beginning but this is how the back garden looked last summer (2006). A healthy crop of second-early tates on the right, some salad on its way on the left and the two separated by a rather weedy patch of grass. At the front the patio's in shade but look at the shed enjoying the late afternoon sun. Lucky shed.