I have another garden 4km up the road. We have got 8 hectares of mainly forested land, mostly sweet chestnut and then oak and ash and wild cherries and hazel and aspen and also quite a bit of juniper. and broom and bracken and brambles e.t.c. I haven´t been up here for 10 days. Here is the track leading up to the garden, it is becoming a bit overgrown this spring. I am sure the radishes will be ready to harvest. And here they are, they look magnificent, I planted them next to the asparagus, but apart from some basil afterwards, I will keep the asparagus weed free. Looking towards the top, all terraced off and filled with loads of woodchips This flowerbed is growing really well. I wonder what this cute flower is? Lets go and have a look at the fruits It´s hard to believe that this is part of a garden. Spot the apple trees. I´m going to have to tidy up round here soon. and, oh yes! A bumper crop of radishes.
I missed out a couple more photos. Soon to be another potato patch. The currants are doing well. Here, a nice colourful bed.
You have had a lot of hard graft preparing the ground. It looks like you have encountered a lot of stones in the process. Whew!
The soil is sandy, so we used tons and tons of woodchips compost and other organic material The stones we carted up from the river. and the ground is mostly on a slope so we made wooden barriers and backfilled them. I have been clearing a flat place with richer soil, so it´s mostly digging out the tree stumps that is the hard bit.
I see how it is going Odif. Your terrain is so much different from ours---we live on the bottom of the ocean in many parts of this country...so quite flat. Even the "old land" is not mountainous.
An update, how is the garden growing. It all looks a bit crazy. My first sunflower is just opening. Ditto the first Lilies are just coming into flower. The red Amaranth is also just starting its flowering.
I am liking your recent piccies of your other garden. Those are some lovely lilies. I see some grey bits on the top of some beds there---are they stone or bark?
Sjoerd. there are logs so I think you are seeing the bark. I used logs to build up the beds to make flat terraces and later on we put the stones in to decorate and delimite the beds. I am getting a new strimmer this week, so once I have cleaned up, I will post some pictures that give more of a panoramic view. We have done quite a bit of weeding, so it is starting to get there.
What an enormous amount of labor you've done! But the results are fantastic. The terraced beds are beautiful.
Looking good Odin. Do you have troubles with animals eating your plants? It looks so rural I was just wondering. Rabbits and deer here.
Wild boars, deers, hares, jays and slugs are the worst predators. My fence is good enough to keep everything except slugs and jays out.
Odif you sure have a good few predators,..good to see your fences keep most at bay,..always nice to see your progress and the surroundings of where you live.
