Before we went into lockdown in March, I had only worked in a couple of gardens and, of course, none since. Everything had already started bursting into life so there was plenty to do and I hope that all my customers have been taking advantage of having to stay at home and the good weather to carry on where I'd left off.
I had an old veg bed to clear out for someone. We're going to reduce the size of the bed by half and plant half up with shrubs and flowers, and sow grass seed over the remaining bit.
Although most veg are grown as annuals, they are pretty much all perennials which explains why tomatoes and spuds grow for years after they've been planted. A lot of the plants in the veg bed had been self seeding everywhere so no doubt we'll be digging stuff out for a while yet.
The garden owner has lots of shrubs in pots already so we're just moving stuff into the veg bed from the pots, to save some money. In addition, plenty of other plants had self seeded themselves around the garden so we dug some of those up too to move into the empty bed.
One of the jobs I needed to do was to dig out these blocks - it's a shame I didn't think to photograph me standing beside them to give an idea of the size. They were enormous! And we used some of the soil in the veg bed to fill the gaps where the blocks had been, and then sprinkled with grass seed over the top. A really good and productive half a day which cost virtually nothing as we were just moving things from one bit of the garden to another. The best gardening!
