Hi there! Wish I'd found this excellent forum sooner. I got my first garden in â??72 and Iâ??ve kept a detailed gardening diary ever since. The first entry describes buying 1 doz King Alfred daf bulbs for 28p! Iâ??ve had various passions over the years â?? roses, sempervivens, dianthus, herbs, vegetables and ferns to name but a few. Now, Iâ??m trying to get a new garden into shape having moved house last year. We moved from a larger than average mature plot to a small neglected one. The â??soilâ? is heavy clay, liberally studded with flints as big as your fist. Hence my username. Itâ??s like trying to garden on Chesil beach! Never mind, Iâ??ve set myself a five year programme to establish my new garden and Iâ??m looking forward to sharing with and learning from other forum members. Regards.
Thanks for the welcome. The well nourished young lady sitting on the bonnet of that Subaru looks like she could be, er, um, a bit "physical". I don't suppose she's available to help me with some really heavy digging, is she?
Flinty, your description of your garden reminds me of one of mine when I moved to an old cottage. The previous owners had a Deer hound who used to like to dig enormous holes to bury his bones and like yours everytime I dug I pulled up lumps of york stone. I eventually had a rather large pile of it with which I was able to pave round a pond I also discovered and renovated with ships hull paint and a patio too. It looked brilliant by the time I had done, still miss that garden and home very much. I wish you luck with yours.
Hi Flinty,by the way you discribe your garden with the heavy clay sounds like you could be somewhere in essex,as its all clay around here.By the way a warm welcome to G.C,and where are you from.
Moyra Ah, York stone. Now you're talking. If only I were digging up that. Mind you, I'm saving the biggest and best flint nodules that I dig up. They'll come in handy somewhere in the grand plan for the garden Coub I'm at the southern end of the Test valley in Hampshire. Once you move off the high chalk in Hampshire, you often find yourself up to your knees in clay.
Hi Flinty! Big warm welcome to you! Hope you stick around, post lots and enjoy yourself! Where about in the world are you based? Kath!
D'oh - serves me right for... a) not reading posts properly and b) just looking on the user profile for location.... :o Sorry Flinty - worked in Hampshire myself not far from Southampton - Wickham and Titchfield. Very nice part of the world!
Kath Wickham and Titchfield? Those be foreign parts to us Test Valley folk! Mike is right, I'm located a few miles out of Southampton.
