And a woman needs a garden bed…

Yes, I wanted a garden bed in front of the fence for a long time. But just the thought of digging that soil to make it, let me  very doubtful it would ever happen.

Then when the pile of freshly excavated dirt kept growing during the making of The Shed, I started making plans and  finally went into action.

After three days and 34 wheelbarrows (only 20 {woman} shovel full at a time though) of  rich and heavy soil  (wet with the showers) going up the driveway, I finally had the start of my garden bed…

I won my bet with Svenne who said I would only need a third of it and I used over half of it...

Planting all the cuttings I had made previously  was much easier and hopefully will grow better. (I call it "Determination"...

We bought 2 large bales of hay mulch, which fitted snugly and perfectly in the trailer.

And after spreading it generously  around the plants it now looks like a real garden bed. The rain we've had recently is helping them  and (as a bonus), I've noticed a few nasturtium plants starting to shoot (from the seeds that were in the relocated soil from the shed).

My next project is to weed out the rest of the place  and spread mulch. I swear weeds start growing back as soon as you turn your back on them. Hopefully the mulch will slow them down a bit, ...for a while at least.

Meanwhile, the bananas are getting bigger,  (when will they ripen???)

The passion fruits, chokoes, oranges, custard apples and  lemons  are producing more than we can eat.

Free lemons anyone???