Many thanks to Ali, Bev and Martha who joined me, Marg, Ben and Lucy to fix up garden beds and plant seedlings on 14/3/10. We also relocated a pond and it's ready and waiting for frog spawn.
We planted lots of lettuce, brocolli, carrots and corriander. I planted the seeds into polystyrene grocers boxes a month before.
Here's Marg filling the new pond with tank water pumped from the rear garden
The next day, I had a 1.5kw solar panel system installed, having paid for them back in November. Unfortunatley, they put 6 of the 8 panels on the South side of the house! And they broke lots of roof tiles. That'll teach me not to head off to work and leave them to it. I got the installer back to at least put three of the six on the north side.
A lovely array, but facing south!
(Postscript - I did finally get the contractor back to put the panels on the north. Now I'm having the battle to get the smart meter and payments for excess electricity generated).
