Birthday Gardens

This week was Purple’s 40th birthday, so my friend and I worked together to make him a new garden bed for his birthday.

It was a great project – hard work, but good fun and very rewarding. We started with a scrappy patch of the veggie garden – our soil is mostly clay, so it’s hard to get anything to grow.

We weeded and cleared the area and dug in a bit

Put in rocks to raise up the bed in a nice curved shape that followed the natural line of the garden

And filled up the new bed with new soil, shovelled in some humus dug from the compost pit and it was ready to plant

Littletree came out at the end and helped put in some of the seedlings – we planted sat soy, parsley, spinach, aloe vera, nasturtium, rocket, a few flowers for colour and some other things I can’t remember right now.

Then we mulched it and watered

and voila! the finished product was ready to surprise Purple with. He loved it :)