Hello and welcome back to my blog 🙂
The post today is another shorter one because the Mr and I have had a busy weekend in the garden starting a major project.
I will be back on Wednesday as usual with a longer post!
The start of a major project
One side of our property on the outside has been used as a storage area for all the rubble and paving slabs that the Mr and I have taken up around the garden.
Recently, the space was looking a complete tip and was on our list of projects to tackle this year:
The Mr and I spent a few hours over the last weekend clearing some space in our garage and moving all the slabs and rubble into the garage to be stored. We took the time to arrange things neatly, so that it will be easier to access in the future.
I say “we” moved all the slabs and rubble, though all the heavy lifting (and there was plenty) was done by the Mr as I couldn’t manage the heavier items at all. I know that I definitely couldn’t have completed this part of the project without him being involved! Shout out to the behind-the-scenes Mr that supports me with making my ideas come to life 🙂 I think we are both glad to not have to do this task ever again.
After moving all of the slabs and rubble, the space was swept up and tidied, and we could actually see the side path again:
I plan on using this wall again for growing tomatoes outside in grow bags, as it offers a sheltered and warm, sunny spot that the tomatoes seem to love. For now, I’ve just placed the growbags ready in position:
If you read my blog, you will recall that I have used this same space for growing tomatoes for the last two years and it has worked very well:
Tomatoes: first year (2023):
Tomatoes second year (2024):
What will be different this year is that I have a variety of different tomatoes I will be trying my hand at growing, rather than just cherry tomatoes – some of these varieties I have never attempted before!
I have my seeds at the ready and the seed sowing for the tomatoes will start very soon! Stayed tuned for that post and the updates 🙂
The next steps for this project
This area of the garden is to the side of my greenhouse and also currently houses the temporary compost heap:
As mentioned previously, I am going to start transferring all of this composting material to the new three bay system I built recently in The Woodland Garden:
You can read my post about my new composting bays in The Woodland Garden here.
After all the composting material has been moved, I have new exciting plans for this area and it is actually a pretty good sized growing space. It is going to look much more spacious again once all of the composting material has been moved.
There are also two large builders sacks, which are filled with soil that the Mr and I have dug up from around the garden and from the time in 2023 when I dug up all the grass in The Woodland Garden to begin its transformation.
Post showing the transformation of The Woodland Garden available here.
The soil in the bags will be used in new raised beds in The Fruit Garden, for filling my tomato grow bags and other projects in due course… Stayed tuned for those updates!
Planting snowdrops in The Wild Borders
The other mini project I worked on this week comprised of planting over 50 snowdrops in the right-side of The Wild Border, around the new trees I planted in the border recently.
If you follow me on Instagram (search for the_charming_nook on Instagram) you will find additional content that I post, including a short video of me planting the snowdrops.
You can also read my post about the two new trees planted in The Wild Borders here.
Five of these snow drops were ones I purchased from a garden centre during my stay up in the North back in January this year, to visit my best friend and I started off by planting those beneath the cherry tree:
This variety is ‘Mount Everest’, which are snowdrops with single rather than double flowers.
I then planted out 50 snowdrops ‘in the green’. This variety of snowdrops is ‘Nivalis’, which is another type of single flowering snowdrop, but its foliage is much slimmer than the ‘Mount Everest’ variety planted above:
This is a semi-shady part of the right-side border and I think the snowdrops are going to naturalise very nicely in the area beneath the trees and on the bank:
My vision is for the snowdrops to naturalise down the bank and spread into the shadier part of the border, to brighten it up at this time of year. We view this part of our garden from our living room window, so having snowdrops to look out at in Spring every year should be really nice.
Things are picking up in the garden and every day I see plants starting to spring back to life. I love this time of year! I hope you are all enjoying getting out in your gardens or out in nature when you can.
Stayed tuned for many more posts to come 🙂
Happy gardening!
The Charming Nook 
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