TULIPS AND LETTUCE

 Finally all the orange tulips in each pot , in each  bay , are now in flower givng a lovely grouping of colours.

We bought the bulbs from Sarah Raven's website in the colour sets she had.There were lots to choose from, so we'll but more later this year to plant in the flower garden.

We Needed somewhere to plant our vetetables, lettuce leaves etc.We went looking at the vegetable trugs that are available and the costs were very high. This one below was £99 and not that big.

 Lovely looking but pricey, so we looking around to see what we could use to make one but without costing a small fortune.

 We had this, which is called a Plasterers bath, we'd bought it to use to bath our Westies in a few years back.
We whated to keep this one for various uses , so went online and ordered two more, cost £32.

Paul then searched for some old wood we are ready owned to make up a frame.

 So using some old decking boards and some timber, he made a frame work for the tubs to sit in at a comfortable height for ease of use.

The nice new bath.

 Holes drilled into the base for drainage.

We've placed it, for this year, in front of the pond on the patio.

It was filled with some garden compost and a bag of compost. Then we had to wait on a delivery of compost from our local nursery, once it had arrived, Paul planted up the second bed.

 So some a pair of raised vegetable beds, cost to make £32. Okay not as pretty as the one shown earlier but twice the size and one sixth of the price , based on buying two.
This as now given us more space in the greenhouse for the Dahlia's to be grown on.



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