Well I moved into my house back on June but I haven't really done a lot to the garden (to busy enjoying the weather!). At the moment there isn't one single flower bed, but lots of gravel areas! (I think the previous owners covered the beds with gravel as I don't think they were very much into gardening.
I have decided to revert at least one of these back to a flower bed. This is what it looked like when I moved in:
It is the bits where the pots and the pole are which I am converting first.
What I have done is lift and remove the gravel, lift the weed surpressant and then roughly start to dig. The ground is very compacted under the gravel. There were a few worm amongst the gravel which I tried to rescue (lol). This is what it looked like on Sunday, not completly dug over as I ran out of time an energy:
(I was stood in the wrong place so there is a nice shadow of me in the photo).
It's really hard work digging the soil as it's just so compacted (but not that dry), I kind of hoping that the winters frost might do some of the hard work for me. I've got a bit of compost that I can dig in as well. Think I might make the bed into more of a curve than a square, so put some grass seeds down where needed. Am I doing the right thing? Should I keep working on it and plant up in the autumn or wait until spring?
Now I've started it looks a much larger than I though I have no idea what I'm going to fill it with!!! I've a few plants I've been bringing on in pots that can go out other wise I'll be looking around the garden centres for a few cheap things or raiding my mothers garden!
Hannah