And so it begins...

After this sunrise this morning I was determind to make a start on the garden!

I'm not kidding you when I say the garden has endured 14years of abuse from the kiddos and only a smatter of attention from me, and certainly very little of anything good for the past few years

It is small and unruly.

(sounds like my youngest 3!)

As most of the growing is to be done in gro bags and sacks the need to toil the soil is small...which is good as the only patch to toil is a long narrow strip on the wall!

I was so keen to get stuck in that I didn't take before photo's but took a few afters...

although this a patch that will stay untouched, below the clematis and honeysuckle where our strawberries have rooted themselves

This is the little patch I hope to grow enough pumpkins to see us through Halloween this year

 And this is an idea of the after-trail little helping hands leave in the garden

I pulled out so many weeds, some skinny grass types and a few really sturdy dandilion ones.

The soil this side of the rose bush is not too bad as I used to grow Cape Daisies in it and look after it reasonably well, the other side of the rose is another story.  The main weeds have been removed and a couple of large unknown plant roots where pulled out.  There is however a tiny little tree that has self seeded and grown quite well in our neglect :)  A bit too much to pull out, I gave the roots a good old thrashing with the fork and will keep and hope we can get rid of it.

That's it for now, not much I grant you but a start.  

Thankfully the mild weather has left the soil OK to dig and I hope to get to the local dump to buy a couple of bags of compost from them in the next week or so to dig that into this little patch!

The 3 gro sacks will I hope sit on a sunny spot I have on the patio

1 for carrots 

1 for garlic and onions

and the final 1 for Butternut Squash

This will leave the patch of grass we have intact (well whatever we have left after the chooks are set free) for the kiddos and Cube.

OK I'm getting ahead of myself perhaps...next job in the garden a plank of wood down the pumpkin patch fence, to prevent the weeds from next door creeping through and give a support for the chicken wire to attach to...then to dig the compost or manure in.

There are a lot of jobs to do and I need to get them into order so I don't waste time and energy

or money!