After years of dreaming and searching and trying
really hard, I finally bought a piece of land today. It’s in a lovely little town
called Malmsbury, the neighbours are very friendly and I’m so excited to be
starting a new garden. It’s not as big as I had originally hoped for, but I’m
pretty sure I was being unrealistic when I imagined acres of fruit trees and
vegetables, chickens, pigs and goats. I think I’ll leave that for my next
project…
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| The block from the road |
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| The road from the block |
Before I can finally begin my very much anticipated garden, there is some preparation that needs to be done. I have a basic design for the whole block already planned out (I have had four months of waiting and frustrated anticipation), but this will take some time to implement. I plan to set up temporary garden beds on the site where the final garden beds will go, this will allow me to use the land immediately and to start working with and improving the soil for the final garden beds.
The block has not been slashed for some time and
will soon become a fire and snake hazard, so I definitely need to do something
about that first. Then there is the soil, heavy, dark grey clay, pretty
compacted in places. It is still moist in October, but I am pretty sure the
soil will harden to concrete and form huge cracks when it dries out in a couple
of months.
So the plan so far, spend one day slashing the
grass and weeds, then a second day digging the soil…