Well, no one has actually stolen it to be fair but we have whittled it down considerably! Look, up there under the blue tarp ~ that's all there is left 😮 And since I took these photos, even that pile has decreased by nearly two-thirds! Adrian has worked so hard sieving all that bloody soil and finally he got to the stage where he was determined that it would just all be over and done with 😄 Now, of course, we've got gazillions of bags of rubble to get rid of but that's another story 😉
It's taking a bit of getting used to not having that weed-ridden mound of soil staring at us every time we walked by but it's so lovely to finally have the area cleared. Adrian used up the remaining leftover sleepers to build the last couple of raised beds that will be going in the garden, front or back. And, of course, filled them up with some of the mountain. Over in the left-hand corner is the other container that had been out the front with the black stained ones. I haven't yet decided what to plant in any of the containers.
Adrian also flexed his muscles and wheel-barrowed a whole one ton bag of stone chippings that we'd had delivered onto the shared driveway. We had two more lifted over our garden wall into the kitchen garden area to be used in due course topping up various parts of the garden, both front and back ~ he had to use another half dozen or so barrow-loads from one of them to finish the job. I raked it all out as he dumped it and amazingly we finished the job in one day!
Next year we will look for some nice all-weather furniture to put out there to make a cosy seating area. We are also going to put some large tubs, or perhaps barrels like we've put in the front, along the wall and will move the raspberries into them.
And talking of raspberries here is a little bowl of some of what we've harvested this year, along with one of the mini cucumbers from the greenhouse. We've had lots of strawberries too, as well as the cut-and-come-again lettuce, and the tomatoes are finally starting to ripen up 😊
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