Hi All,
Bored with container and grow bag gardening we asked the
landord for permission to dig a border in the back lawn. This granted, we
have now cut the turf away to reveal a patch of sandy, dark soil that seems
typical here in Folkestone. The border has a 8' wall behind it and faces SW,
but has a four storey building 30' away to the SW and is open ( except for a
low, sheltering 4' wall ) either side. Almost a "sunken" garden in effect.
Today, we're off to buy a fork to dig it over, remove any stones
and perhaps buy one of those huge bags of multi purpose compost from
Homebase to improve the soil quality as I don't think it's been touched
since the war.
The question is, what to grow? Considering the time of year,
position etc. Plus, it has to be from seed. At some point we will move on
and I don't want to invest large sums of money on something we will leave
behind eventually.
You'll glean something of our interests from earlier posts. Giant
echiums, pawlonia tormentosa, vegetables, exotic or exotic looking plants.
Oddities, tropical, edible, the strange or just downright huge.
Any ideas anyone?

anyway, time to buy a fork...........

les ) ( happy to be a gardener again.......)

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