We have managed to completely replace a large section of dilapidated fencing including having to remove a sad, old and overgrown honeysuckle, a rampant elder and a couple of stringy and unloved climbers. The fence building was a pretty huge learning curve with added difficulties such as discovering that our neighbour's garden is a foot higher than ours, which needed to be restrained from completely sliding into our garden...
We now have a proper compost bin. This arrived a good few weeks ago and we are loving being able to put all our veggie peelings and other compostables in there rather than out with the rubbish. Something that we could not do in our previous flat. A bottle of organic compost activator has been purchased as our garden doesn't get enough sun in the colder months to heat up the bin enough. I hadn't realised that there is a certain skill involved in composting. Putting in the right quantity of layers etc. So far we have deterred too many flies with a layer of shredded and scrunched newspaper.
Most recently, the weekend before last saw the construction of a container for creating leaf mould, thanks to advice from the Gardeners' World website, as the beautiful mature wisteria trained over our kitchen door and a huge viburnum are now finally shedding their leaves (such an unusually mild autumn this year.)
Focus for the new year can now be turned to the business of transforming the muddy, patchy lawn into fertile soil in raised beds ready for sowing in the spring! (Fingers crossed we get it right...)
Our leaf mould container a la Gardeners' World (2nd December 2006)
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