NEWS.....Radish Trial

Here we go then, the first news of seeds being planted. I have planted some radish seeds up and put them in our new greenhouse to see how they fair. There is one pot of "Scarlet Globe" and one pot of "French Breakfast" (not sure if the French really eat radish for breakfast but still). Pictures and news to follow once there is something to report.

So, no posts for a while. Here is a bit of a catch up so that you can see the current 'state' of the garden. Obviously, since it is winter not a lot has changed. In the coming month or so we will start planting seeds and making preparations for the plants that we want to grow.


As you can see, we have removed the turf and created some borders. Fingers crossed, they will produce some nice veg for us to eat!












The latest addition to the garden is our greenhouse. I'm having a cup of tea here after we finished putting up the framework. It is a light plastic construction but it feels fairly sturdy. We will have to see how it stands up to the rigours of an Essex winter!









Here it is in situ. We have attached it to the ground fairly firmly and also put some guys on to tie it to the fence panals. Fingers crossed it will stay up.

As you can see it is not glass but a thickish type of plastic. Hopefully it will still get enough light through it.

Welcome to the first post of my new blog. Below you can see some of the photos taken whilst we took the first tentative steps on the road to creating our garden paradise. Check back to see how we are doing.



The first stage was to remove the turf from the areas that we wanted to become the new borders. This is tough work and necessitated the purchase of a spade and a wheelbarrow!








We had to spread the work out over two weekends, partly because of other commitments and partly because I was too unfit for the task!









Once all the turf was lifted you can see the shape of the new lawn and of the new borders much more clearly. The next stage was to remove the wooden edging (yuck!) that had gone round the existing borders. I then took out some of the annuals that had flowered during the summer.



In the bottom left corner (in the pictures) there was a small border consisting of blackthorn, rose, mint and lily of the valley. The all needed to be taken out and proved to be extremely troublesome.