Taking Shape!

South End - a carpenter friend generously offered 4 large sacks of untreated saligna sawdust to line our garden paths

Suddenly the garden has sprung to life

Looking north - stones from the beach are still being collected to line the top of the garden; we're getting there!

Coriander is LOVING it here.  Behind it grows butternut and runner beans.  To deter monkeys we're trying a trick recommended by a friend - tie up old cd's so that the monkeys get bewildered by the reflected light

Lavender, squash, beans coriander and mint growing like crazy things.  Using cow manure also throws up surprises - whatever seeds were lying about within the manure start growing in the garden wherever the manure is applied!

This is demonstrated by this squash growing rampant in the lemongrass bed.  I plugged in 2 more squash seeds, since they like it so much here

The bottom of the garden is still taking shape, but we've built some steps around where the flowers are growing wild.  This is The Alyssum Stairs

Potato pit on the left is starting to take off!  And to the right, sprouting rocket and garlic chives with coriander doing well, and waiting for the onion, carrot and radish sproutlets to pop their heads up

  

Just look at those beautiful tomoatoes!  Here on the right is wild mint which needs to be pulled back quite a bit, also wild dandelion and blue flowers - forget-me-nots which are seeding themselves all over the garden - and a whole lot of other 'weeds' which we are leaving

New terrace to be made