JWK's Garden Destruction

Blimey Kristen,

I thought that WAS Johns garden for a second.:DOH:

 

Hello John,

Wow your project is fantastic!! You have done so much. It is looking great!!

Bigbird

 

It looks a nice clen job,will look great when completed ..
Dave

 

Coming along well John.

I have really enjoyed following this thread over the last year or two!

 

Wow.. this is looking pretty decent JWK :WINK1:

Lovely, clean lines. I may have missed the answer for this, but I'm guessing you're a builder or at least work(ed) in the construction trade, no?

BTW - the seating area looks shallower than in the drawing. Does this mean we've lost the scented plants area immediately behind the actual seats???

Looking forward to seeing more.

BD

 

JWK: I'm trying some Night Scented Stock in a seed tray this year. I've always sown it "direct" (as per the destructions on the packet) in the past, but had limited success. So I figured to try sow, prick-out, transplanting this year. Either Monty or Horticultural Channel was doing it and I thought "Why do the packets say to only do it direct" - I sow Parsnips, Carrots, Sweetcorn etc. in containers that apparently can't be transplanted ... so I'll take a chance on N.S.Stock this year

 

Can't believe I've missed this thread till now. JKW, it's absolutely STUNNING, and I'm more than just a tad jealous!! You should be so proud of yourself, what you've done here is brilliant.
Now, if ever you get bored, once you've completed this master project, feel free to pop on over to Shrops to give me some inspiration for my very flat garden! There's bacon butties in it for you!

Seriously though, it's brilliant, really, very well done!!!

 

Sell it to the Tate Modern as an Art Work John! "Barrow Mound" or somesuch ...

I have 4' wide beds, 18" paths. I dug the paths out a spit deep and put it on the beds to raise them. You are on a slope, so even if you had heavy clay like me you wouldn't have soggy-boot syndrome like here, so raised beds may not be your thing. But I think never walking on the beds makes the soil so much more easily worked, and I don't resent walking on good quality topsoil that could be put to better use either! Just a thought ...