Gardening for style

Great excitement this weekend – we’ve planted our hedge that will in time grow to be a stylish surround for our herb and salad bed. Our hedge arrived by courier in two banana boxes – 120 Buxus sempervirens (English Box). The aim is to make an...

Deliverance of weather

The severe weather we were expecting arrived last night. According to the newspapers it wasn’t as bad as people feared but it sounded like rain of biblical proportions on the roof.Still at least our water tank will be full which is always a comforting...

Autumnal colour at last!

It was another mini milestone this week with the arrival of some autumnal colour at last. This was in the shape of our first delivery of trees – 42 in all – about 50% of the first tranch of planting to be done.It was quite a sight to see the HGV delivery...

Oooh, those legs are going to hurt

With two beautiful sunny days we set to again this weekend to see if we could reveal more of our land. The main challenge was to clear the area where the fencers are coming to build the chicken run but MT couldn’t help himself to test out his mower again.The...

A man and his mower

Last weekend MT set to with his new lawnmower bought in the sale. It’s not quite the ride on mower he dreams about but with a lawn that’s refusing to grow and thistles growing on most of the land we figured it was too soon to be investing the amount of $s...