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Not the garden, just the mudpatch!
whilst musing on the GYO forum today, and trying to drown out the row in the kitchen whilst the fitters put the new kitchen in, I pondered....
well they started it, they saved me some of the cupboards intact, after i mentioned i need some more raised beds, so they went outside, and although they will do the job, they are UGLY.
now i am all for reclaiming and recycling, being broke, i have to be, but I hate 'ugly', still a bed is a bed.
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BrideXIII

Not sure How long i am going to be able to keep this up to be honest, between posting and a lovely little diary i found for my computer, But come the spring planting i do want to keep a track of how it's going for anyone thats interested.
In the meantime, whilst i am preparing the garden, I will try and post some before and after pics of how things are progressing.

managed at least to get two raised beds built since the last posting, and bodged two plastic greenhouses together,...

BrideXIII

Seeing as I am laid up with a back injury and can't do any gardening today, it seems like a good opportunity to start a blog record of my semi-successful gardening experiments .

My raised borders are still very much in bloom despite not being finished until late july and all of the plants having been transfered in from the tubs. Not Ideal, but the shrubs and fuchias seem to be thriving, some of the stuff from the hanging baskets are doing well in the beds too, so now I have to plan...

BrideXIII