Over the autumn I had scrapped together material to do something with the bare patch of grass in front of the fish pond. Over the Xmas holidays I made a start on the bed edgings with scaffolding planks. Gave them a good coat of creocote to hold back the rotting process.
Once the second bed was made it was time to lay the path - Staffordshire Blue pavers with terracotta tiles on sharp sand.
Actually ran out of sand to finish the path, so double dug the beds and worked in loads of compost, leaf mould and topsoil with plenty of chicken manure pellets to really get things going in the Spring. Laid gravel on the far edge, and more blue pavers next to the fish pond.
I've started to plant it up with Wallflowers and strawberries that were over-wintering in the greenhouse. One less area of lawn to mow!
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