Welcome gardening fans to my first ever blog – how exciting! I’ve posted an intro to our garden and my gardening story. I intend to share a new post every Sunday, describing the seven and a half year transformation of our garden, from lawn to a productive kitchen garden. There will also be posts of what’s going on currently in the garden and no doubt a few demonstrations of how I do certain gardening jobs, but I’m no expert just a very, very enthusiastic amateur gardener. Watch out for a few recipes too, as I do like my food! Please join us on our journey of hard work, pain and…

A Garden Makeover We moved to a beautiful, friendly village in North Wales seven and a half years ago. It was simply to get a bigger garden to grow as much of our own fresh food as possible. When we came to view the property we walked straight through the house to the back window. In front of us was an ample sized garden with a view of mature trees, including the magnificent walnut. That was that, we were moving to our new garden! Luckily the house had potential. The garden is 160ft long, a good width near the house but goes right down to a point. It was simply…