Here's what I'm busy doing: Sphagnum moss bricks: The start of the terraced border. Looks like I've built it when drunk: One of the dirt piles waiting for attention: And the poor plants waiting for their new home: We bought a pallet of moss bricks, and quickly found out that we needed another pallet. Unfortunately we have to wait for a week for it, since the nursery had to order it especially. :-? But in the meantime I'm trying to get the rest of the borders organized and trying to find out what has to be moved and how much space I'm going to have in those new borders. So that's why I haven't been online much.
Work in progress never looks good does it? I like the thought of those moss bricks Droopy and will look forward to seeing the project completed. Is that Butyl liner you're using by any chance?
No, it doesn't and there's always something in progress here so our garden half looks like a building site always. I'm using two kinds of liners. The bottom one is rather thick, to prevent some very invasive weed from returning. The inner one is some sort of flimsy material that's no good for ground cover since it dissolves. We had two rolls of it and just had to use them where the dissolving didn't matter. Saves a lot of newspapers.
Good move Droopy. I really enjoy projects like this and seeing them coming to fruition. I know it's back breaking work and that at times you wonder why you ever started but it's sooo worth it when the job is completed. You can stand back, look at it and say "I did that!!" I'll look forward to your next stage and the piccies.
Did you have a lot of gardening chores to catch up on when you returned from your vacation Droopy? Things really build up!
I promise to take photos as we progress, Eileen, but I won't promise any date for posting them. Frank, the state of the borders was horrible! But not as bad as last year since the weather was cold so nothing grew well bar the ground elder. I spent our first week at home weeding and cutting, all day every day. I was sort of pleased when we had a day of rain a week after we returned because then I could locate the sofa and our other furniture.
What a project! That will keep you out of mischief for quite a while, I'd say.....or maybe not That must have been frustrating to run out of bricks. Arggggh! Now you have top wait. Is there stuff that you can do whilst you are waiting for ther new pallet to be delivered? This is such a big project, I'm surprised that you didn't have to apply to the council to get a building and landscape permit. hahaha Good luck!
Thanks for the encouraging words. Netty, the plants were dug up from where we're making a new border, and I'm not getting any new ones until we see what rooom we'll have. We've got some too well-stocked borders around here. Sjoerd, councel permit indeed! The wall aren't as huge as they look like, promise. Photos do tend to lie now and then. I'm not idle while waiting for the moss bricks. There's plenty to do outside, but no projects as time-consuming or spectacular as the north side.
That pile of soil looks extremely fertile. You must have put a lot of compost in it. I know it will bring great production of what ever is lucky enough to get planted in it.
Thanks featherphobia. I don't think the soil is as fertile as it looks though, since it's been a good two feet under the surface for years and years. We haven't done anything to it but move it. The soil here is very dark, since we live on old marsh land. And it's acid to boot too.
Thanks Glenda. Those moss bricks are so lightweight I could put eight of them in the wheelbarrow and cart them without even straining myself. I could probably had double load but the wheelbarrow isn't big enough. In the old days, when my grandparents were young, that kind of sphagnum was used instead of wood during winter. When dry it burns well. It was dug up in spring and dried during summer. We can still see the pits where it was dug from around here.
