My Secret Garden

The majority of people who come to my house probably don't even realise that our property is 1/3 bigger again to what they see unless I mention it. Up until now, there has been a dense row of tall trees midway down the section right across (bar a very overgrown archway to the right side).

Since the area below is where we will be making our permaculture garden, we needed to let the sunlight in! So over the weekend it was a bit of a mammoth task to chop down the 3 centre trees and what a difference it has made - not only can we now see the rest of the garden from our lounge, but have actually gained a good 4 metres of land this side of the retaining wall where the trees were planted (and great for Nathan, he even now has a tree with a few branchs to climb).

There is still a lot of shading to the area over winter on the north and west sides because of the sun angle, so we will need to work around that.

But yay! Now we are planning the chook dome from The Permaculture Home Garden by Linda Woodrow.