I have (un)officially joined the #MyTinyGarden group on
Twitter! Although I am not actually a part of it as I recently made my Twitter
private, so anyone else using that hashtag cannot see my posts unless they
already follow me, but I have posted a couple of things under the tag. Maybe one
day when I am no longer private I will ‘officially’ be part of it. I don’t
think there are actually any membership requirements other than having a small
garden.
The new house that David and I have moved to has a rear
garden which is mostly slabbed and surrounded by brown ugly fencing. I have
submitted plans to the letting agent detailing what I want to do so she can ask
our landlady for permission. Most of what I want involves putting netting
across the fence panels so that I can grow climbers up the fence to hide it. Fence
panels are ugly and boring. I want colour! I want texture! I want bumblebees! Maybe
even some butterflies!
I am planning on clematis, honeysuckle, nasturtium and
passionflower up and across the fencing. I also want some of those over-fence-panel
pots into which I can have tumbling tomatoes, trailing lobelia and maybe
courgettes (yeah!). I would also like a couple of fruit trees or bushes in pots
– I am thinking apple, another almond (why not – the flowers are beautiful),
and a blueberry bush. I want to plant strawberries around the base of the apple
and the almond.
I would also like a small trough planter or three, maybe on
a shelving unit, near the back door where I can grow cut and come again salad leaves (spinach, rocket, mizuna, lettuce, corn salad, red-veined sorrel) and
herbs. Possibly spring onions too.
To be honest I want to get started and get things stapled,
and buy pots and compost and get going with it all but – I must wait. I need
prior written consent to do stuff as we are renting and I don’t want to
jeopardise that. Also, it is still too early for planting a lot of things as we
are still at a risk of frost.
