Saturday, 27 July 2013

Garden update

We now have an enclosed raised bed, eventually this will be planted out with soft fruits - raspberries, currants etc but to begin with I'm using the space for more vegies. I was going to build the enclosure myself but decided I wanted it doing properly so got a professional in! And we are very pleased with the results, thanks Aaron!


First I removed the 2 trees along the fence line, around 4 metres tall by 3 metres wide, I mulched a lot of the small branches and the rest went onto a bonfire.
 
 
The cleared area.

 
 
Several weeks later!


 
 
My two helpers assisting with moving the soil, nothing wrong with using child labour!
 



 
 
The first plantings, kale, mustard and Chinese cabbage transplanted from the other beds, peas, radish and various seeds planted on the left hand side. I have since planted some rhubarb towards the back and am waiting on raspberries, red, black and white currants all to go down the far end.

 
 
And here are the first 3 beds  I planted, most things are doing well. We've been picking radish, kale, mustard and rocket for a couple of weeks now. I have transplanted a fair few plants both to pots for the our other house and into the new plot, that's what happens when you get the little ones to plant the seed!

Saturday, 20 July 2013

Busy few days

We're just had a busy few days at the new place, Lisa spent several days up there on her own painting the bathroom and the boys bedroom. I've been down there for the last couple of days planting out the next bed.

Firstly the bathroom, I thought I had some photos of what it looked like before we had any work done..  but I cant find any! Either we forgot to take any or Lisa has deleted them.

We had the old dated looking bathroom ripped out and new one installed. The old one didn't have a bath, something that we need with 2 young boys. So in went a bath, new shower and vanity, we decided to do our own painting so here is what it looked like after the builder finished.


 
 
Lisa spent several days painting and finishing the room and here is what it now looks like.