This is the place to discuss not just allotments but all general gardening problems and queries which don't fit into the specific categories below.
(formerly allotments and tips, hints and problems)
In the garden plans, virtually the entire eastern section of the garden, currently labelled as flower beds, has been turned into food production.
A northerly aspect in the southern hemisphere is good, good, good.
If you want to be happy for a day, buy a car. If you want to be happy for a weekend, get married. If you want to be happy for a lifetime, be a gardener.
wow you certainly have put a lot of work into it, puts us to shame. I would love to have a garden that wasn't as a flat as a pancake, so much more interesting and with more potential.
You weren't the one to have to paint it. It was a nightmare. Seven coats of various applications.
If you want to be happy for a day, buy a car. If you want to be happy for a weekend, get married. If you want to be happy for a lifetime, be a gardener.
I didn't know you did that yourself! Ohmigod, I think I would have put my head in the oven halfway through!
I've had a great look through your website - what a marvellous transformation. I love all the cat cages designed into it all too. It was good to see your plans to understand what was where in the garden. But now I want to see more photos! We still haven't seen piccies of your bog garden or your rainforest!
If you're a girl I'm going to have to come over and marry you!
It's a date, then! :)
This coming year or 2 is the inside of the house, and then I am going to never ever see another builder so long as I live. I hope.
If you want to be happy for a day, buy a car. If you want to be happy for a weekend, get married. If you want to be happy for a lifetime, be a gardener.
In restoring a crumbing Victorian house to what it once was, the self-sufficientish bit has come naturally.
