Building a Food Forest -Scotland
Edwardian 1903 Home & Garden in Scotland Planting With Permaculture Design
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Building a Kitchen Courtyard Herb Garden in a Small Space in Scotland (Part 1)
Where Did it Start? This area was pretty much open when we moved in in the February 2019. The trees that were a loose hedge were bare opening up onto a huge field. You can read about this area in this blog Making Every Bit Of Space Usable. Building A Long Planter Raised Bed We…
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-No Waste Wednesday-How We Grow Food in a Vertical Garden Using Milk Cartons On A Fence
What Did We Do? Not being happy with the amount of plastic that was going to landfill, we wanted to come up with a solution to help reduce that. When researching I came across plastic milk cartons being used on the window sills for herbs, just the bottoms used with drainage holes. I thought why…
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-No Waste Wednesday- How We Use Insides Of Toilet Rolls In Our Garden
What Did We Do? First we start by collecting all the inside of the toilet rolls all year round. Usually gives us around 3 a week 150ish over the year. We collect them ready to use in April to plant seeds in that we want to grow a little taller before planting out, like Broad…
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Making Every Bit Of Space Usable. Building A Long Planter Raised Bed
Where Did We Start From? This side is where the sun sets at night, it takes a while for the sun to reach this area in the day, but when it does, the sun reflects off the white shell wall (which is stunning up close) and gives the plants that extra much needed sun. There…
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How I Changed an Under Stairs Cupboard into a Calm Room with a Bed on a Budget
What Did it looked like? There was a door either side, one leading to the living room, one leading to the dinning room. You had to open one door, shuffle into the space to open the next door, if you left both doors open they opened onto the actual under stairs area so you could…
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Building a Mini Food Forest in a Small Area. Ours is On A Fence (Year 1)
What Did We Do? When we moved in, this area had conifers that covered half way across the garage, that were taller than the bungalow next door and were cut back so much on neighbours side they had browning leaves at the bottom. How Did We Do It? We decided to have them removed and…
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Building a Food Forest in Scotland. Starting with the Tree Layer (Year 1)
See Previous Post Starting to Build a Food Forest, Where Did We Start? When and Where Did We Plant? After building and planting in the fruit cage in July 2019 the design plan was to carry the fruit trees across the back. Not being able to cage the whole 30m area across we used these…
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Starting to Build a Food Forest, Where Did We Start? (Year 1 & 2)
There are 7 Layers of a Food Forest Tall Tree or Canopy Layer Sub-Canopy or Large Shrub Layer Shrub Layer Herbaceous Layer Ground Cover Layer Underground Layer Climber, Vine or Vertical Layer Bonus Layers 8. Aqua/Wetland Layer (Bonus) 9. Mycelial or Fungal Layer (Bonus) What is a Food Forest? Food Forest sometimes called Forest gardening…
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Oakmount House. Edwardian 1903 Home & Garden in East Ayrshire, Scotland
Not much is know about this house or the family that built it except the few pictures we were given by the previous owner, showing the original features like the beautiful windows, the windows in the roof & the chimneys all that have been removed & replaced. Many of the features inside are still there…
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