...and so it begins...

sowing the seeds of a good friendship takes some time and some thought

i need to start some where

where better to start than with some thing that is easy and not much effort really involved

i figured it needs to be something i will see everyday and feel good about my efforts and keep going

hopefully today's efforts wont be covered by weeds in a months time lol

this is only the after photo i'm afraid. the before photo just had trees and a pretend tiny lawn thing. it was a patch of barely growing grass that was a completely useless waste of space and time and never got mown because it was always forgotten about-good thing the grass never grew huh?

so i decided it needed removing. the easiest and quickest and cheapest way is to cover it with weed mat and cover that with bark. well that was the plan until i realised i had totally under estimated the amount of bark needed. i added it up in my head and went "holy crap!" because i am supposed to be doing this the cheap way...hummmmm

so i changed course and went around the front garden taking the top layer of leaf mulch from around the plants and plonked that on top. woohoo!

now that lovely half wine barrel was free-yes free-because some neighbour had decided they no longer wanted it and had put ti out for council collection. i whipped up and ran away with it to put in my garden-SCORE!!!!!. my plan is to fill it with some lovely jubbly compost and bung as many bulbs in it as i can. to keep it cost efficient i may have to empty the vege patch of some dirt and transfer that to it and then add some compost or bulb stuff-does it really matter?

anyways today was very productive because i also managed this too. the garden at the side of our house is...ahem..cough cough...a tad over grown shall we say?

so i aimed for the gate today. i wanted the big plants chopped back-hydrangas and a camelia and some other trees i have yet to identify-and to weed the dirt around them. i also wanted to put some ground cover in so it would all eventually be maintenance free. so i moved some spider plants from the back yard and some ferns from further along the garden

here's how it looked at the end with plants in, path swept and garden watered

here's what the rest of the garden looks like so you can get a fair idea of how over grown it was today lol. i like it all bushy but not so much you can't walk down there. blocking out nosey neighbours is good though :>

and see here's proof of how dirty i got today-check out the dirt on those feet-uck!

okies that's today.

feel free to leave me any gardening advice-i know nothing so anything would be appreciated lol

more soon