Here goes nothing!

[Mushaville]

We moved into our house in Jan 2014 and didn't really do much with the garden until March this year - needless to say it was a bit of a jungle!

I should probably mention that the house we live in now is actually the house I grew up in from the age of 2 - 21 we rent my old family home off of my parents and will be buying it off of them at some point in the future. We lived in this house as a family until 2009 when my parents bought a new home, at this point the garden was still looking nice and had always been well tended. When we all moved out the house was then rented to a local lady who was foster carer, she didn't really do gardening other than planting a few bits hear and there and wasn't one for maintenance , after she moved out my sister then rented it out as a houseshare - at this point the garden started to resemble a jungle and aside from a quick mow of the lawn when they had a BBQ not much else was done.

We tackled most of the internal maitenence in 2014 and 2015 has been dubbed the 'Year of the Garden' - I have some big plans for what I want to do but first on my list is my 'allotment'

I've got some great Before and After photos to share with you all, keep you eyes peeled for regular updates!

[muddled]

How lovely!
I'd give anything to move back to my childhood home.

It's probably a good thing that the garden was left for so long. Now it will be a blank canvas and you won't have to suffer the guilt of ripping out what your parents put in to make it your own.

I'm looking forward to the pictures,
Welcome to the vine!

[Mushaville]

How lovely!
I'd give anything to move back to my childhood home.

It's probably a good thing that the garden was left for so long. Now it will be a blank canvas and you won't have to suffer the guilt of ripping out what your parents put in to make it your own.

I'm looking forward to the pictures,
Welcome to the vine!

Thanks Muddled!

Thats exactly how I've been looking at it, as a blank canvas, we've had to do a lot of straightening out first off to get it to a good enough state to work in but it already looks so much better

[Lumpy]

Hello Mush, how exciting as you will be able to do what you want where you want without any confines imposed by a previous grower.

Come on where are the piccies?

[Mushaville]

Hello Mush, how exciting as you will be able to do what you want where you want without any confines imposed by a previous grower.

Come on where are the piccies?

I left my memory stick at home (at work at the mo, in the process of being made redundnat so sitting at my desk bored with nothing to do hence the middle of the day posts!) with the Before pics on, I'll have some uploaded tonight xx

[noviceveggrower]

Sorry to hear you are being made redundant Mushaville. Have you got anything else lined up or are you going to spend some time gardening and job hunting?
Oh yes sorry forgot to say welcome to the vine

[Mushaville]

Sorry to hear you are being made redundant Mushaville. Have you got anything else lined up or are you going to spend some time gardening and job hunting?
Oh yes sorry forgot to say welcome to the vine

Nothing lined up yet, job market is sparse here at the mo but did have a really good phone interview with B & Q the other day for a Trade counter supervisor position which I would LOVE to get - so fingers crossed!

I'm applying for things left, right and centre as I'd rather go straight into a job rather than have some time off and that way I can save my (very small) redundancy pay out - it would be nice to spend a few extra days in the garden though...

[Penellype]

Welcome to the vine, and good luck with the job hunting.

[Mushaville]

Sooo...this is how the garden look like when we first moved in


By Feb 2014 we had
- torn down the fence at the back that had been used to block off the workshop
- remove what we used to call 'the gallows' which was just a frame structure put up years ago to string party lights across and if it started raining you could attach a tarpaulin to the wall and then hang it over the gallows to make a nice sheleter, again, ideal for parties!

By March 2014 we had
- installed a water but
-that's it...it was a slow month lol

By June 2014 we had
- removed the last bits of block work around the old planter you can see in the middle and done a little bit of tidying up but nothing that major

That's pretty much how the garden stayed until March this year

More photos soon!

[Mushaville]

Fast forward to late March this year and Dad had come over and built me some nice raised beds out of old scaffold boards, he had some left over landscaping fabric from another job so it cost me nothing except from keeping him filled with coffee!




The rest of the garden still looked a mess (as you can see from the falling down link fence on the left of the photo but it was a start!)

[Mushaville]

Towards mid April Dean very kindly painted the raised beds for me (I don't mind the 'rustic' look but they were just a bit too rustic for my liking ) and after constant nagging from eveyron abuot what I wanted for my birthday I told 'new fences and soil to go in the raised beds' and thats exactly what I got!



This turned up on our driveway on my birthday weekend
We had a BBQ whilst Dad put in new fence panels and Deans work mate (who used to be a tree surgeon) came over to help him clear the mass of trees invading our garden from next door - both side - we now have light in the garden!
Mum and I spent the day moving barrows full of soil to my rasied beds and my sister sat there looking very pregnant lol

To be continued...