Welcome to Spring in the Northern Hemisphere. Whilst many in the dark days of Winter cosy up and become a little lethargic, we've been pretty busy. Photo documentary time...
Wood is kind of an obsession now. The above picture shows the main wood processing area's yield to date. Lots more to be cut and split this year though.
The area has been cleared of canopy to encourage coppicing.
It's a mixture of oak and beech this year.
This wood is in the lowest part of the valley by the stream so will require quite the effort to get it back to the top of the slope.
Looking back up the slope you can see how we are clearing as we go, low hanging fruit first.
This is the secret garden with dozens of small growing areas. There is a lot of experimentation going on here, more to follow as we check out the yield throughout the coming year.
This picture and the one below is the sun garden.
Hedgerows are increasing in density each year, we heavily mulched this one on the western side of the house.
This new hedgerow has been planted just to the west of the Yurt to add a bit of protection from stormy winters.
The hazel and goji berry are doing well.
We also have a new hugel bed to the north of the Yurt.
We went a bit mulching crazy.
As those familiar with gardening will know you can spend a lot of time in the Spring and Summer pulling weeds... we don't really want to so have started a program of sheet mulching an area, followed by heavily mulching the area with organic materials and moving the sheet to a new area.
A very exciting development is the addition of a 14ft x 40ft poly tunnel that should be here this week. A separate post on the construction and then use of it to follow. We have decided to position it on the furthest bed away in this above picture.
The pond has been dug for some time just waiting for a liner, which turned up this Spring.
We sodded it, stretched out the liner and recovered with the sod. Next we will get some ducks to enjoy it along with some pond plants.
This adds some humidity to the area and will hopefully encourage beneficial predators to our garden. Pond accident drills are next on the agenda seeing we have two little girls, Papa is going to get wet, me thinks!
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