Garden Improvements - New flowerbeds

And once again weeks have gone past without me putting anything new on here... ;-)

Just a quick one this morning to show the new flowerbeds that we've built in our courtyard.
For those of you that know me personally, you know that I love gardening, especially vegetable and flower gardening. Now one of the frustrations of our new house is the lack of space for me to practice this hobby (although we are taking steps to rectify this - more later)

Our barn has got a lovely (rather large) courtyard at the front, and there were two little flowerbeds/planters, that the previous owners dumped a bunch of plants into, and then left them to it :(. A real mismatch!

Last year I ripped out all these neglected plants out of the one and planted some vegetables. Not many though as they were only 1.1m x 1.1m, and there is only so much you could do with such little space.

Below are a couple of photos:

This is the one with a few veggies from last year..





and this was the other one (I started removing some of the plants by the time these photos were taken)





So in March, after realising that our plans to enlarge our estate ;-) wasn't going to happen anytime soon (councils being councils), we decided to do something to these flowerbeds to give me more space.

It took us (mostly Adam) 2 whole weekends to dig out, demolish, rebuild and fill back in. And here are some evidence of the process.
(Believe me, he did not take kindly to me photographing him working!)





We even had to get a man with a truck to come and deliver more soil, as the soil and compost we had which we thought will be "more than enough", clearly wasn't.



So here are some images of the finished beds, and believe me, it was such a treat to get stuck into planning and planting them, considering they were more than twice the size of the old ones.
(dimensions 1.4m x 2.8m)





PS: I'd just like to say thank you soooo much to Adam for all the hard work and for caring about what would make me happy!
PPS: I'd also just like to make sure that you are all aware that I DID actually do some shoveling and other hard work too, although it's not very clear from the description above! ;-)