Oh! I nearly forgot..as I have limited funds, my options for landscaping were very few..no pennies to buy a couple of ton of top soil..or wood to construct raised beds..I had seen stuff growing in tyres before and saw again when I went to stay with Hawk in London..he has a wonderful established garden, very natural and full of wildlife..a few of his plants have flourished in tyres so I knew this was an option available to me too.
I looked on google for tyre fitting places local to me and came up with this place.. http://www.hometyre.co.uk/ I gave them a call and explained what I wanted, and the very nice man gave me the mobile number of my local operative, Dave..after calling Dave I had 8 tyres dropped off at my house within half an hour! Result!..not a penny spent..(-:
So tyres stacked I set to work on creating some curves..
The bird table, I made that myself too from a fallen branch I found in the woods at Andy's..when the housing repair bloke came to fit me a washing post, I asked him to cement the bird table into the ground for me too..he very kindly obliged..(-:
Marking out the circle..
after much really bloody hard work with a child size spade and deep rooted turf..I finally got it lifted whilst saving as many worms as possible..I would like to state here, that I really DO NOT enjoy taking up turf'!! However, preparation is 9/10ths of the law..(-;
I intend growing lavander and purple sage here, with one of each plant already in..another 2 to plant yet..also there will be lettuce round the circumference of the circle..nothing like fresh salad leaves mid summer, straight from the garden!
Next comes the really hard work.. /-:
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