it WAS just a dirt patch

Stage One : Preparing the general gardening area.

I finally moved into my back garden.

After nearly 2 years living in The Treehouse.

I went out and bought a sprinkler set, a proper hose – and a flat pack chair and table set and umbrella.

I also went so far as to buy some herbs for the kitchen and a new pot and saucer for my trusty old Peace Lily.
Seeing as no matter how bad I treat her, and how often I forget to water her, shes still hanging on.  She really deserved a new home.

I’ve moved the one piece of outside furniture I owned – a small bench seat I bought about 18 months ago during my last ditch effort to do something with the rather large slice of lawn I have (considering the floor size of the upstairs Treehouse).

And I built that bloody furniture.  In the end.

Thanks to Dan the Man, the table was easy work.
But that first bloody chair took me goddamn near an hour.  How on earth I am supposed to slot Bolt G into Slot B when there is no bloody Bolt G – just 45mm, 55mm and 65mm bolts.  Well … FUCK!

There was however a diagram that I finally turned to.
Yes, I know.  Us technical types never read all of the manual.
Anyways – although flat pack furniture is a great idea when you are trying to transport it home – surely these days, this shit should really assemble itself.

After much swearing and gnashing of teeth, the first chair was together and it was rather smooth sailing from there.

Getting there ...

My poor neighbours must think that they live next to a Sailor.
A female Sailor with an extremely potty mouth.  My bad.

I was pretty proud of the whole result once everything was finished off.

Job well done!

And as soon as the potager was ready to be dug in slightly, all i needed was the false bottom put into it.
Matt is coming around to do that shortly so I will be making trips to the garden centre in the mean time for pea straw and blood and bone and sheep poo – things like that!

And signing up to a million and one gardening email send outs and websites.

The potager is sitting in the corner of the garden.

And then very very shortly it will be ready for topping up and the planting of the seedlings.