Newbie with a lot of garden!

Hello gardening buddies! My name is Cat and I have 4 acres of land in beautiful Devon. Luckily most of my land is taken up with piggies, goats, hens, geese and ducks. I do however have a lot of garden and a sort of idea what I want to do with it. I started last year with the front (north facing) I dug up all the grass, laid a path and threw in a load of cottage garden plants. I am going to have to re-jig a few plants this year but I am pleasantly happy with how its coming along. My back garden (south facing) is yet to be sorted out. I first need to relocate all my poultry! This will be next years project and I know I will be needing you all to advise me and tell me when I'm about to do something stupid! This years project is to relocate the veg garden from the bottom end of our land to up near the house. I ( I say "I" but it was actually my husband) have just finished building our greenhouse. We think we have put it in the perfect spot, south facing? :/ The veg garden is very much behind schedule as I have been out of the country supporting a sick friend who unfortunately just died of breast cancer. So, I doubt that I will have stacks growing this year like I had planned. I'm not going to beat myself up about this and instead I am going to spend a bit more time digging and setting it up so it'll be perfect for next year. I tried to upload some pictures but it said that they were too large, I'm not sure what that was all about. I'm really looking forward to learning from you guys! xx

 

Hi Cat, I'm new too but your story is inspiring. Hope to see some pictures of your garden soon. Will be popping on from time to time so hopefully see you around.

 

Hi Gnarls, Nice to meet you what sort of garden do you have? See you around xx

 

Hi Catrin, you too. I have very secluded suburban garden. It's about 80x40 ft and has trees that overhang all around the bottom half. I have some pics on my digicam which I'll upload soon for you. Need the feedback anyway.

 

Hello and welcome, you will like it here

Sounds like you have a project on your hands there. I only have a small sub-urban garden.

 

Awwlies thanks I used to have a really small garden and its the main reason I moved homes. You are right! But it keeps me occupied thats for sure

 

Hi Catrin, sorry for the loss of your friend you can still utilise your g/h bit late for growing from seed, but garden centres are full of tomatoes/cucumbers etc.
We love photos especially animals, quite a few have chooks, I used to have goats and donkies.
Sounds quite lovely roll on the photos.

 

HI Cat and welcome to the forums, if you are having problems uploading a picture then most likely it's too large (file size) and you get this error "The uploaded file is too large for the server to process." if so you need to compress the picture a little, I normally load the picture into Microsoft
Office and then compress it into a document size and that brings it down from a large file size (3 - 6 meg) to under 1 meg, which the server will then accept....good luck

 

Thanks guys I will try and upload some pictures again today. Its a beautiful sunny morning here today. Once I've dropped the kids off at the bus stop I'll be out with my shovel!

 

Hmmm I don't seem to have microsoft office on here, it's a macbook. I think I'll have to get one of my kids to show me, lol

 

This is what the front garden looked like when we moved in

 

hey cat i am newbie too :D i lost my best friend last year due to leukemia so if you ever feel down i am here to talk to sorry to hear about your friend :( I hope your okay :(

Love
Bex

 

This is what the garden looks like this morning I can't do a fancy wide screen shot like the one off google maps :/