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Category: Roses and Garden | Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 6:36 pm

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As this is a new blog , so a little background info first. We had moved in November of last year from western Maine to Southern Maine about a 35 mile move. We had a ranch with about a acre worth of land, which was mostly cleared. The new home is a much nicer colonial, with more land, but smack dab in the middle of the woods. To create garden space, Ive had to create it out of the woods, which has been alot of back breaking work.

Some pics. Front house...



Front yard, where first mixed border garden is going into...



Me working on front bed border...



Well you get wood, when you cut wood.. Alot of this was burnable wood, which I passed on to friends, I dont have a wood burner here...



Front view of new bed...



Mulched and planted..



Side view...





When creating new garden beds in the middle of the woods, you need amendments, I got two truckloads of composted horse manure and shavings... about 10 yards of loam and some compost.



This was phase I... I have 3 or 4 phases of making mixed borders.

More to come!

Thanks for looking

Silverkelt


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eileen wrote on Sun Jun 14, 2009 7:20 pm:

Sorry Silverkelt but none of your photographs are showing up. Check out our topic here on how to post photographs on this site:

http://www.gardenstew.com/about4115.html

I'll look forward we seeing them!!

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Frank wrote on Sun Jun 14, 2009 9:01 pm:

Hi Silverkelt, congrats on your new home, garden and blog here :) Looks like you have already done a lot of hard work, it'll surely pay off when everything gets established in the earth.

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daisybeans wrote on Sun Jun 14, 2009 9:27 pm:

Whew. What a great job there. Quite a project. It will be neat to see how it develops -- sometime tell us what you planted in there. House is pretty too. Congrats!

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gardengater wrote on Sun Jun 14, 2009 10:08 pm:

What a job, but a good opportunity to create on a blank slate. Lucky you!

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eileen wrote on Mon Jun 15, 2009 12:26 am:

Ah now I can see all of your photographs and I'm impressed!! What a task you have set yourself but it's going to be fantastic when completed. I look forward to updates from you.

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cajunbelle wrote on Mon Jun 15, 2009 1:45 am:

Wow, that's fantastic, can't wait to see more.

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Canadian Chelsea wrote on Mon Jun 15, 2009 11:20 am:

How is your back feeling after all that hard work? You have done a fantastic job clearing out all those trees and amending the soil. Once the flowers bloom, you are going to have an amazing place. Congratulations!

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