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Excitement: breaking new ground
21.08.2023 - 12:00 / theunconventionalgardener.com / Emma Doughty
We half-finished the back garden last year, in that we installed and planted half of the raised beds. In truth, we did a lot more than half, as we had all of the paving done and installed the two sheds. But the wet weather over the winter stalled progress, and it has remained unfinished. It has been frustrating, but has become even more so since the sowing season arrived and I faced the fact that the plants I wanted to grow this year had no home to go to. And so it is with great excitement that I can say that weather, time and energy coincided over the weekend, and we have broken new ground!
We still need to dismantle the old shed, which is taking up some growing space, and make a base for the new little shed, but in the meantime Ryan got the rotavator (US: tiller) out and dug over a section of the remaining ‘lawn’. This means that we can soon start building more raised beds, although it has rained again and the forecast isn’t good for the rest of the week, so further progress will have to wait!
I tackled the front garden, roughly digging over a section with the new fork I was given for my birthday. It’s ironic that starting a No Dig garden often involves digging, but our garden used to be laid to lawn and has been well trampled for years. The back garden is pretty weedy, although the front is better (and weed control fabric over the winter has killed off most of the grass).
I have been lusting after Yuzu (Citrus ichangensis × C. reticulata) since first reading of it on the Japan Farmers Markets blog. Yuzu is a Japanese citrus so fragrant that is used to perfume baths on the solstice! It also has culinary uses, which Joan Lambert Bailey has continued to explore on the blog. She once kindly sent me seeds, but they didn’t
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