First year growing vegetables but flowers have been going strong in the garden for years. I plant bulbs, tubers and perennials mostly. The idea is to get a garden with all year round flowers that need little if no care or maintenance. The lawns are sown with slow growing lawn seed so cutting is reduced during the height of the season. This year the largest lawn in the back garden was turned into a greenhouse which is 6' x 8' but is built on a slab of concrete that is 9' x 10' with a drainage channel to allow water to run out the back brick wall. Then alongside the greenhouse is a raised bed that is 4' deep but only 20" high walls all round above ground level. The walls are 9" wide so I can sit on them. The only problem is I lost the battle for them to be 4' wide and they are 5' wide. The bed is 9' long with permanent wooden rails a little like goal posts, at the north side that will take 6' supports for beans and other climbers with out casting a shadow on the other crops. As I will find reaching the centre row a little difficult this is where I have sown my onions which will need little in the way of attention apart from a little light hoeing. The bed is set out in the square foot method and that means all I have to do is complete one section at a time. One-foot square is no problem and as it is permanently marked out in a grid system knowing where I finished and need top start the next day is all rather easy.
The house is disabled adapted but some of our neighbours question why we have such a house as our gardens put theirs to shame. Once a woman was really rude and questioned me about it.
I told her to come back when she had a medical degree and an MRI scanner, but until then Bu**er off.
Jax