Building a garden from scratch is easier said than done, but for 15 years that is exactly what we did at Ravendale House.
It was often hard work, but we loved it and the result was our 'blank canvas' of 1998 was transformed into a beautiful and productive garden, which I hope you have enjoyed reading about in this blog.
But tide and time wait for no man and sad to say I am no longer able to give the garden the attention it deserves. It would break my heart to see it fall into disrepair, so the time has come to move on.
I will continue this blog in memory of 15 happy years gardening, but I don't have a garden at the moment so will start by telling the story of the last 9 months, so if you want to read the story from the beginning, please click here.
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We all know it’s been a hard winter, but I feel it may have been harder than we realised for some of our little furry friends.
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Yesterday was glorious, more like Summer than early Spring. Warm and sunny from first thing, without a hint of wind, which is a refreshing change as it feels to have been blowing a gale for the last 10 days.
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It’s still probably a bit early to do this, but today I’ve been counting the cost of the harsh winter.
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Well I couldn’t put it off any longer, let’s face it, I’ve been putting it off for long enough, 12 years to be precise. Now the old tree is gone I no longer have an excuse not to clear out the ditch.
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I’d almost given up hope of the chaps coming back to cut down the old tree, but yesterday, just 6 weeks after their first visit, they turned up.
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A few days ago I did something really silly, and fell very heavily on my left knee. I won’t go into detail, lets just say it involved black bin liners, but I’m lucky not to have broken my knee cap, as I crashed with my full 9 stone on to the concrete.
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Having a garden of this size creates a lot of debris over the years. The green recycle bin provided by the council doesn’t even come close to what we need, so we choose to compost ours or burn it.