So it all began on a rain soaked week back in early June (I think) when my Father in Law & DS1 joined me for a couple of days rotavating the gardens (front & back), clearing the weeds & stones & generally getting a start on it all. Back-breaking work ... but strangely satisfying! 
After a couple of days, the front garden looked like this ...
The ground was still seriously stony but the bigger ones had at least gone. It took several more weeks before the real work started! LOL. DS1 spent a couple of days digging some trenches ... 2 spits deep, which we now see was totally uneccessary ... but you live & learn I guess. In July, we started planting seeds & soft fruit, which my Mother in Law bought for us (we had a fabulous day out at Wisley Gardens).The courgettes were already growing (from plants not seed) in a grow bag out on the back patio & our first planting was 3 humble potatoes that had started sprouting. Next came the first seeds ... Beetroot & carrots, which seemed to take sooooo long to start growing! And the fruit trees ... Blackberry, Blackcurrant & Blueberry.
In early August, DS1 dug some more trenches & we planted Pak Choi, Spring Greens, Turnips & Spring Onions. Later in the month DH joined in & we planted more carrots & mixed salad leaves (we needed a quick crop to maintain enthusiasm at this point! LOL)
August also saw our first harvest ... courgettes and a couple of small marrows - delicious! The blueberry bush had been in fruit when we got it ... the berries ripened in August so we had those too!
And that is about where we got to at the beginning of September ... & the next summary post should get us right up to date!!
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Oh to have crumbly soil! I have crappy clay that is seriously bad, and yeah TONS of rocks! So you're doing this in the front yard? I wanna convert our front garden, but like most our garden area its also sloped, *sigh*. Keep posting, get me up to date!
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