Garden doings.

David is naturally a very busy sort of fellow and he's often found to be making or adapting things. A number of factors have combined which has seen a flurry of garden related activity from him recently.

I have spoken before about our efforts to make our teeny garden more wildlife friendly. Our efforts seem to be paying off, but the one thing we didn't have was a pond. There isn't enough room to have anything huge, but it all helps and one black bucket and a wooden hedgehog ramp later and we now have this.

 

To meet the legal deadline our local council is finally rolling out a waste food recycling scheme. We are late to the party on this one. Currently we compost as much as we can, but we're now in the position that our borders are at a level where they won't take much more compost either so we will move over to the new system. We produce so little garden waste that we don't bother paying for the collection service offered (it used to free). That leftover empty bin has now been made into a new smaller compost one than our current one. There will be a space next to it to put our 4th slimline water butt and divert the rainwater from the shed guttering into it.

The final repurposing has been using the trunk from our neighbours' tree when they had it cut down last year (they were happy for us to have it) and making bee hotels. You have to drill deeper holes if you want to attract the female bees apparently.

To be honest I haven't had any input into this bar supplying him with homemade digestives and Dorset apple cake. I did suggest that we had a chat with the pond specialists up at the garden centre about suitable plants and then forced him to stop off at the cafe. Might have picked up a couple of unplanned for perennial wallflowers too🤣

He's now busy working on other stuff.....

Arilx