What a mess!

I do sometimes wonder if we have gone completely mad when I look out of our back windows. When we moved in the garden looked, well, like a garden. A bit of lawn, a gravel path, a few pots etc. Right now though it looks like a building site that has been attacked by giant moles!

One of the beds has now been dug, with extra drainage added and lovely organic compost dug into the topsoil. We mounded it too as per advice from the veggie books. The others have been loosened (an attempt at taking advantage of the frost last night) and at least one other should be finished this afternoon.

Digging! The back right bed all finished and just needs edging to make in a neat raised bed and the other looking like huge molehills...

View from my 'studio' - not particularly inspiring for a trainee garden designer! The garden generally has been fairly neglected in terms of making it look neat and tidy. We had to take up all the gravel off the concrete whilst putting up the new fence as we were trekking back and forth through the house with materials, taking out the old wood etc. Attention then moved indoors for a while whilst we put up the first of the new alcove shelving. It will look much nicer eventually though!

More general mess! You can see some of the pots that I emptied out yesterday though. I've left them overnight to dry off and they will be cleaned up and stored ready for the sowing season.