New Shoots (or a vague attempt to blog my garden progress again)

Crikey, it seems to be quite some time since I wrote a blog.. Several years in fact!

So since 2011 there have been changes a'plenty. We left Longstanton and the Allotment (that never really got going haha!) and moved back to Sunny Peterborough. Where we had a eventful year there with job changes,  pregnancy, house break ins and then more job changes!

All that led up to us to moving to semi rural East Cambridgeshire, several days before Christmas 2012. We settled in a nice big (rented) house with a very shady east facing garden so for the first time in 6 years I didn't grow a single vegetable! In reality I wouldn't have had time for growing that year as our latest edition to the family (Tiny) arrived mid April and took up considerable amounts of my time.

Not being ones to stay put for long, we some how managed to start house hunting that summer, only this time it was for our very own house to buy! We viewed the grand total of three houses in the village and luckily for us the third one was just what we were looking for. So offers were put in and accepted (after some faffing) and after another 6 months we finally moved into Number 47, a post war ex-council house. Now we knew the house needed work, but what really sold it to me was the 30m of west facing garden. The bottom half of which is in full sun for the whole day!

So did I grow masses of fruit and vegetables in 2014? Did I heck!! We spent most of last year sorting out he inside of the house on the smallest budget ever. We're nowhere near finished but it's now in a state where I can get on with Other Things.

Which brings us up to date and to new blogging adventures as 2015 is the Year of the Garden.

The garden's original owner had been a prolific grower and the whole garden had been used for vegetables. Sadly for me the chap we bought the house from had laid it mostly to lawn and what little space that had been left for growing got very weedy lady year (although I did manage to grow a few shallots and raspberries!).

So that's the before photos. You can just make out the old growing space on the right too, although sadly the old baking tray (iPad) doesn't take the best of photos! The whopping great big leylandii was in fact 3 trees, I say was as they were cut down at he beginning of March, and boy what a difference that made (to the bank balance too!). 

Going...

Going...

Almost there....

Gone!

So with the trees gone I started digging, weeding, digging, weeding ect, ect, ect. At the end of March the plot is now looking more like a growing space and less like a post apocalyptic wasteland!

Ah, the lovely building site look of weed suppressant mat! I'll take some more photos later in the week as I've now planted in four beds and will hopefully be digging out the middle ones over Easter.

So I'll leave it there so now, as there isn't much else to show off (plus the wind took out the big mini green house last night and I need to try and salvage it's remains!), and hopefully will blog a bit more frequently from now on!