I haven't been blogging much lately. Summer seems to be the season for labouring in the garden, rather than reflecting on your labours. M and I have been working hard on aspect of the plan for the back garden: slaving in fact, because unbearable heat usually comes with the dry sunny weather.
As I said in my last post (here) immediately after finishing our "Back Garden Plan No.3" (here) we started weeding, and constructing the first of three large vegie boxes, on the steep slope immediately behind the house.
Building the vegie box was, frankly, a bastard of a job, and I did my back in so badly when cementing the second post in that I had to take almost a month off. (M and I had to pull the post out of the wet quick-set cement when I realised that it was not in line, though it was vertical!) But the end product is beautiful, particularly when it has been raining, and I am looking forward to filling it with broad beans.
The first vegie box is now complete, and is nearly full of scoria and fill excavated from the path. We have been too skint to get the top soil to finish the job, so photos of the inside will have to wait for another day, but below are a few snaps of the progress so far.
BTW: This is only one of about four projects we have going which we haven't been blogging about. Before we started on the back garden we constructed some weather-proof storage for all out outdoor equipment (which I didn't quite finish before moving on).
In addition to the vegie box, M has been teaching herself how to construct low, stone walls to create low terraces for the wine-barrel garden; and I have been widening and leveling the path and creating temporary terracing with the spoil.
Next time it is so cold and wet I can't bring myself to go outside, I will trawl the my pix and do another blog entry on one of these.
