I hope that you have got a spade, which is a gardener's main tool. You
cannot do without it. It enables you to doubledig, slice, break-up and
remove soil, whereas the fork has considerable limits in its use. In
fact the fork is rarely used in the garden for digging purposes.

Regards,
Emrys Davies.


"Les &/or Claire" wrote in message
...
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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