Reclaiming a garden

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Please can I join you? I usually post on the daily thread, did not realise there was a green fingered thread until someone pointed me in this direction.

We moved into this bungalow 3 years ago at the end of this month. The grass was almost as tall as me and full of weeds. I will post some photographs of the garden then and now, once I can resize them.

Last year our neighbour had a laurel hedge removed, I could not believe the difference it made to our garden. I am trying to fill the space up, we had a short fence put up which I plan to train a montana clematis I raised from cuttings and also a compassion rose. Both are in the ground but I need to put the vine eyes and wire in and start to training them. The montana will be trimmed down a bit once the flowers have died off, it has been growing in a pot for the last 3 years, so its a bit tangled up.

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Davesnave

Your story sounds familiar. We had an acre of garden like yours in 2009, plus 4.5 acres of similar land. Here is a photoof what we did first....

Davesnave

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You have to get them hosted. I use imgBB. I put that info into my post above, but took it out because you are not a newbie.:doh:



No need to resize.

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May 2018



May 2018



June 2015


June 2015 at this point the grass had been strimmed and mowed twice it was approx 4ft high the first time we saw the garden. I do have some photos if I can find them.

Gers

Lovely garden csarina!

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We grew veg in the beds at the top of the garden. Last year we decided to alter the veg garden by putting in raised beds.



We built four beds across the garden with paths in between, they are all planted up this year.

We grow as much veg as we can, we do not manage to eat it all ourselves, pass some of it on to friends and neighbours.



The rhubarb has been very prolific this year as well, I have frozen quite a bit but also given quite a bit away.

Our strawberries are going well we have picked about 6 lbs. I have a kilo in my PKP to make some jam.

Davesnave

Just in case people think all we did was slash and burn our inherited garden,I'd better add a photo to show that we did, eventually, start planting it up. :rotfl:


That came much later. At first, we had so much else to do that we just kept large areas under grass and landscape fabric. The area we wanted for the garden also contained two septic tanks and about 50 unwanted trees, so a digger was needed to get the site into a fit state:


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Diggers can't do everything, so the huge pile of stones in the rear right is what my wife dug out of this patch.

Davesnave

I always find veg gardening better in a raised bed, Csarina. There's no logic to it, if ground isn't waterlogged, but there's something about the order and disclipline it imposes and the way it all seems more manageable somehow.


....And OAPs like me don't have so far to bend!

Davesnave

Right, one last picture from me. That same area of ground on June 2nd this year. Whoops, that pile of stones is still there, just creeping into the picture! They're waiting for us to make a path.



Since the first picture and this one, someone drove a 1.5 tonne digger through here, dug down a metre and replaced a large pipe. We took out all the astrantias and replaced them afterwards. A year later, nobody would have guessed. Gardens are very forgiving.

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I want to grow ememurus. I garden on heavy clay, what can I use to provide a free draining situation for the tubers?