New Beginnings
Clearing Started
After the haphazard method of growing and selling flowers of 2019 where flowers from the garden were stuck in buckets and sold at the our local market in Sedbergh (it wasn’t a huge success) I had another go in 2020 growing Sweet Williams in the corner of our field and sold them in bunches from outside the house. Happily selling from outside the house, even with Covid restrictions was much more successful than in buckets on the floor (possibly because they were very cheap). Still I still felt I could do much better so I joined flowers from the farm and chatted to other growers, bought books and did some research.
New Flower Beds under Development
Now with help from my 82 year old mum, husband and son clearing our abandoned garden was started. Raspberries, blackthorn and various other creeping invasive plants are being pulled and dug up (where they were clinging onto the soil with more strength than we have in our hands and arms). I like to use no dig methods in order to protect the soil, its structure and all the life there in so where possible we just pulled them out. Fleeces from our sheep have been laid on the newly designated beds and compost placed on top to (hopefully) supress the vegetation underneath, roses and peonies planted and a myriad of vegetable and flower seeds sown filling the greenhouse.