This weekend’s amazing weather destroyed any possibility of us not making it into the garden. There was just no way!
We headed over to our local Kings Plant Barn to get premade raised beds to install into our front garden first thing Saturday morning. Originally we were going to build them but decided to actually make the most of our fairly limited time (weekends don’t actually give you more than 10-12 good hours at most) and buy them. We also got some tomato plants and various kit for the beds, like weed matting and some potting mix.
Our tasks of the weekend went as follows (links are to photos on Flickr):
- install two raised beds in the front garden
- make progress on staining the inside of our fence around the property
- stain the “unclaimed” bit of fence between our property and the people behind us
- fill in the part of the driveway that the neighbours behind us keep driving on so the grass can grow back
- remove the old herb bed by the deck steps which is awkward to take care of and generally disused - we also want to put some kind of bark/yukka thing there maybe
- re-pot grafted tomatoes and put them in place by the trellis nailed to the deck railing
We also did a bunch of general maintenance, tidying and weeding around the place.
One of the really cool things about working in the garden is that our neighbours actually stop and talk to us, both from down behind us and next door. We met one of our neighbours from 4, our neighbour from 2 who we don’t really ever see and chatted a bit to our next door neighbours (the shared driveway hoggers!). It was awesome!
It was pretty full on - and definitely a lot more physical than sitting at a desk Monday-Friday so we’re super sore now - but we are really pleased with the results. Next weekend we hope we can plant some veges into the raised beds, see some grass growing back along the driveway and FINISH THE FENCE STAINING!