Colin’s been working really hard in the garden digging up and bagging up all the layers of red gravel. We’ve given about 20 bags of the stuff away on freecycle already and there’s plenty more – there must be at least two tonnes of the stuff. We’ve kept some to patch up the path down the side of the house, but also used a load of it to fill the huge hole that Colin dug out which will act as the foundation of our new greenhouse.
So we’ve basically been digging, sifting and moving soil from one place to another and digging, sifting and moving gravel from one place to another.
There is now a large soil mountain, where the pond used to be and all this soil has come from where we’re laying the foundations for the greenhouse. We’re going to use this soil to level out the garden so that we can lay a lawn…something we and the doggy are very much looking forward to. If we can manage to do this before we go away to Uist at the end of the month then that’d be a miracle – not sure whether we should go with the original plan of sowing seed though as recently our garden has become a battleground for sparrows and starlings and their numbers are growing everyday. My bird feeders get filled and within a couple of hours they’re completely empty again. So maybe sowing seed all over the garden is just asking for trouble – unless we can put plastic sheeting down.
