GSI

We don’t do huge amounts of DIY these days, preferring to Get Someone In.   Certainly a project of this scale is well beyond our capabilities these days, and I doubt things would have been too different back in our prime.  But we particularly wanted rid of the leylandii, and to have a decorative backdrop to the garden.  So digging deep in the pockets, we’ve commissioned Ben to do the real digging.  He got some tree surgeons in this morning to grind out the leylandii roots, and, together with colleague Duncan, has already cut the line of the new path.  Next comes the digging of the trench for the vertical oak sleepers that will make a retaining wall for the new bed.

After that, it’s a new veggie bed alongside the existing path, and some clearing out of the weed patch next to the sitooterie.  I’m doing little more strenuous than making tea at intervals.