HIGHER MORWELL GARDEN DIARY
29th March 2017
Some more fine weather and the potato bed is ready, the spuds are in the potting shed chitting and there has been progress tidying up the beds at the front of the garden. Our builder has started work on the soakaway for the front and as it seems with most building projects at Morwell, nothing is as straightforward as we think.
27th March was a pleasant day and in the time-honoured tradition we sat at the top of the garden with a G&T after the day’s toil. We were very pleasantly surprised to see a swallow swooping over the garden and the field, next day there were two roosting on the electricity line next to the garage. One is a bit camera shy but seems likely it is our garage- nesting pair from last year back rather early.
The downpipe in the middle needs to be connected to a viable soakaway, that was the main job when our builder started. Digging away the surrounding crazy paving revealed all kind of horrors certain to be contributing to the damp problems, like an old soakaway just to the right of the raised bed or the vent under the floor next to the downpipe being buried under the paving. So the paving has gone, a new door step put down and the area cleared in preparation for pavers to be laid. What more could go wrong? Just after this was taken it started to rain. It rained for hours and the carefully laid concrete is not so pretty and the ground is a sea of red mud. Right now more rain is expected…