Sunday, 3 May 2009

Digging up the lawn

Plan:

Replace last rectangle of lawn with four raised beds with gravelled access paths in between.
Requires a rethink of clothes-drying facilities otherwise we won't be able to grow tall things.

Last week:

Bought timber for raised beds:
16 x 240cm decking planks
4 x 180x5x5cm posts
1 tub decking screws
Bought wall-mounted clothes airer and new pressure washer.
Ordered growbag-pots from Lakeland.

Yesterday:

Rearranged corner of patio behind garage.
Fitted wall-mounted clothes dryer to back of garage.
Pressure-washed patio.
Weeded top bed and around waterfall.

Today:

Bought plastic sheeting to line beds, growbags, grit, weedkiller and red watering can (for weedkiller).

Cut posts into 45cm stakes for vampirescorner posts.
Cut 12 of 16 planks into 90 & 150cm lengths.

Weedkiller'd gravel out front.
Potted tomatoes, peppers, cucumber in growbags / growpots.
Planted tumbler tomatoes in hanging baskets.

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