One Step Closer...

Lou8 · Post: # 18300Post **Lou8** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:12 pm

Today we got the fence posts put in around the patch of rubble which will eventually become my veg plot.
2 days for the concrete to set then we get the slats put on.
I'm beginning to see it come to fruition and I'm very excited.

I also have another small patch in the garden I have started removing the turf from which will become my strawberry and salad leaves plot.

Getting there...

Shirley · Post: # 18318Post **Shirley** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:11 pm

yay - sounds like good progress being made. we are still doing some of our fencing... bloomin hard work given the number of stones in our garden!!

Millymollymandy · Wed Apr 26, 2006 6:24 am

Well done

It's a great feeling seeing progress isn't it?

Lou8 · Post: # 18348Post **Lou8** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 8:39 am

Yes, it certainly is.
It's a beautiful day here today so I'll get out and hopefully get a whole lot more done today too.

Lou8 · Post: # 18369Post **Lou8** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 12:06 pm

Here is the wee plot I have been digging this morning...

The roots are driving me insane.

Millymollymandy · Wed Apr 26, 2006 3:56 pm

I don't envy you - I do know that feeling - piles of stones and roots - and all the while the dog (or cat in my case) is lying there, watching you do all the hard work, thinking 'what a chump'!

Lou8 · Post: # 18418Post **Lou8** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 5:22 pm

Heh, spot on!

It's looking good now although my back is aching. I will get my strawberry plants planted out tomorrow.

I think I'll need a bath tonight to ease my back - not used to this hard work.

I'll lie back and start reading Saving The Planet Without Costing The Earth. Of course, I 'll save the bath water for watering in my strawberries tomorrow.

Lou8 · Post: # 18485Post **Lou8** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 3:09 pm

There we go - my first ever attempt... some strawberry plants.

shiney · Post: # 18489Post **shiney** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 3:53 pm

It's so lovely to see all this hard work and planting going on. I have been out on inspection to check my seedlings.

It's such an exciting time of year and I can't wait to re-pot my 'sproutlings' and watch them get bigger!

alcina · Post: # 18496Post **alcina** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 6:32 pm

Wow! That's a serious amount of hard work done there, and it's looking really good! You deserve something bubbly and nicely smelling in your bath, sod the strawberries!!

Alcina

Millymollymandy · Fri Apr 28, 2006 5:39 am

Well done Lou, I hope you have a self-satisfied smug smile on your face now (in between the grimaces of pain!).

Lou8 · Post: # 18647Post **Lou8** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 1:32 pm

Thankyou everyone.

I really feel I am living the dream now. :-D

Wombat · Post: # 18649Post **Wombat** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 1:42 pm

Onya Lou, go for it!

Nev

Mr. Trench · Sun Apr 30, 2006 10:14 am

The earth looks really good - not too heavy. Remember that slugs like strawberries and be sure to put some slug pubs down before they fruit!

Lou8 · Post: # 18842Post **Lou8** » Mon May 01, 2006 10:01 pm

Oooh okay - thanks for tip.

Getting the fence round the bit that is going to be the veggie patch proper finished tomorrow.

Really am making progress.