Lopping it off (Part II)

Back to the permaculture garden! I have been such a staller.

Anyhow, what has been holding up the plans is the fact that our rather large unused piece of land at the bottom of our section is completely surrounded by large trees. Which leaves pretty minimal sunlight in. So, after getting my stepfather around this morning to have a look at what we want to do - he and Simon will then be able to tackle the issue.

This pic is taken from my deck to a row of high trees in the mid-point of our section - so it is the middle tree (the dark green one to the left of the golden tree), which on closer inspection is actually 3 trees - that will be completely removed and the surrounding ones pruned back. This will let in afternoon sun from 2pm onwards. It will also reclaim about 3 metres of land this side of the trees that can be used for the kids to play in (after rearranging the dog's run downstairs). Up until now, we have not used our backyard at all for the kids which is SUCH a shame and they are really well and truely needing the space to play now as the front yard just does not suffice any longer. Since the trees are up on a retaining wall area, we may even put a slide down from there into the vege garden area.