Day 11 of the 100 day project
Today I thought I would tell you a bit more about why I have embarked on the 100 day project. Gardening and blogging have been long standing passions for me and over the last three or four years I have in some ways lost touch with them both. Gardening was the first to go. We have nearly two acres here. When we first came there was an intensively gardened kitchen garden and one or two small areas which were planted up but most of the land was a large field with two apple trees, one walnut tree and a lot of rough grass. For the first six or seven years we were here making a garden out of a field became an obsession. I read about plantsand gardens night and day. I tested the soil. I sketched and researched and made plant lists and planted and planted. Some of that was successful: the fruit trees grew in the little orchard, the mixed native hedging grew and so did the native trees. Daffodils grew although there were never enough....