Matt Daubneys Blog

For a couple of weeks I’ve wanted to get out and sort out the front garden, as it was full of dead plants and overgrown creepers. I’d had a brief idea of putting in some veg and some herbs (a bit of mint, some basil, maybe some thyme) as herbs tend to be a bit hardier then some plants. First though, all the rubbish needed to be cleared out, the beds dug and turned, and some compost needed to be worked into the soil. So a quick trip to Homebase was required.

We acquired a few bags of compost, a garden fork, and some plants (a foxglove, some pansies, some tulips a ficcus (I think!), some cucumber seeds and some spinach seeds) and started digging out the beds. Several hours later (try 5 or 6), after a lot of digging, some turning and some planting we had a nice new flower bed and a turned bed ready for the veg and herbs when they come out of the propogator

See my flickr for some pics!