Monthly Archives: August 2023

Bank Holiday Monday’s efforts – removing a LOT of stones from the newly created planting bed in the glasshouse base. Then the satisfying job of adding compost lugged from my precious heap in Hampshire (sadly depleted as one of the … Continue reading →

The glasshouse brick (half reclaimed to match old walls…) base is now complete. Digger still sifting out huge pile of debris to be broken into hardcore but also a good amount of topsoil emerging from the chaos. If you look … Continue reading →

After much drama entailing the delivery of massive steel beams and two lorry loads of cement being wheelbarrowed down the lane by a procession of 6 men (one of whom fell in and had to be rescued!), the foundations for … Continue reading →

With all the chaos of the land clearing and digging, I had abandoned all thoughts of any harvest this year. But the ancient fig tree was quietly doing its thing in the background…