Garden Face Lift

When Dan and I first moved into this house 9 months ago the majority of the garden was taken over by 8 big coastal rosemary shrubs. They were taken out when we had to replace the back fence and because I didn't do anything with the vacant land straight away the weeds took over. We've been blessed with the very annoying Sour Sob which is very hard to get rid of and continues to re-appear. Over the last week when the weather has been surprisingly good Dan and I dug out every sour sob by hand and then placed wet newspaper down and 10cm of mulch on top of that. Hopefully this will smother the weeds and we won't see them again, fingers crossed.

 To divide the space up we've put 3 square meter veggie patches in. As its half way through winter and there isn't much we can plant in them that will be ready to harvest in time to plant the summer veggie crops. To make sure the weeds don't take over in the empty beds I've sewn some clever clover seeds that will be dug through just before we plant the spring crops. Clever clover acts as a green manure adding nitrogen to the soil. The middle patch has 10 golden shallots and 10 red shallots in it which will be ready around December.

Down the side of the fence in between the garage is a bit of a dead spot at the moment, there were agapanthus there but they didn't make it through the fence replacement. I've just mulched it for the mean time until mum comes down to help me choose shade loving plants to go there as it doesn't get any sun.