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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I wrote yesterday of the importance of keeping your grass edges neat and tidy to give the overall impression of a well kept garden.
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Today I sowed my peas, 69 in all with the hope of getting 64. They’re now in the conservatory with the broad beans.
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Today I sowed some tomato and broad bean seeds, the weather, after a bright start isn’t fit to do much else as it is cold and very windy and now it’s just started snowing!
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Good news, the red and white fuchsia cuttings that looked dead on their feet yesterday, are looking perky and interested again today.
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Across the far side of the field we have a ditch that separates our land from our neighbours. Growing out of the far side of this ditch is an old tree. I don’t know what kind it is but it’s gradually falling down on to our side of the boundary.
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Not a very nice day today, so I stayed indoors and took some fuchsia cuttings. I’ve been threatening to do it for days and now I have.