Work has progressed on the front garden over the past few weeks. In the first instance, we lifted the membrane that had been down for the past couple of months and worked over the soil that had become very compacted under stores of building materials.  We’ve also constructed a bin store and planted round this to soften it up.

We have decided to use a crab apple rescued from the back garden as a central feature of the front garden and got this planted last week.

Making progress 23 March

The herbs haven’t made it into the ground yet, but are ready and waiting.

Herbs awaiting a home

This weekend, the focus was on preparing and seeding a new front lawn.  the makeshift fence is making the most of allotment supplies to keep the neighbourhood cats off our finely prepared tilth.

Lawn prepared and sown 30 March

The warmer weather of the past few days has almost got us to bud burst on the crab apple. Fingers crossed that the frosts forecast for next week don’t affect this.

Crab apple blossom appearing