Garden Drystone Wall Making And Planting Up With My Homegrown Perennials.

 I spent four days helping build some garden walls.  There was 3 of us constructing them with the help of a 3 ton digger to dig out the stones and topsoil and put any large stones into place.  Here's  a photo of one part of the wall:

A brand new drystone wall that looks like it's been there for hundreds of years.

It was backbreaking work yet it was worth it.  My builder friend should take the credit for most of the construction but I did fill every stone layer with stones and soil and laboured and shovelled all day.

Number one son mainly drove the digger bringing big stones and topsoil to us.

One day last week I got up at 6.30 in the morning and filled up our vehicle with plastic crates of my shrubs and perennials that I have grown and propagated myself.

I spent the morning planting shrubs, applying bark and planting the tops of the wall with Sedums, Geraniums, Osteospermums, ajuga..

It was four days hard work.  But when you stand back and admire our work I think we have created something natural and beauty.

That was a political broadcast on behalf of the unofficial Drystone Wall Society UK and Eire.

A Bucket Of Poultry Manure For The Vegetables.

 A new brand to me but still the same stuff!

Being an organic or natural gardener.  I don't use man-made chemicals on the veg plot.  

I had a big pile of fym but it got spread over a stony area of a field to make top soil and eventually more pasture.

We have a big pile of this year's fym but it's far too fresh to use until Autumn.

So I purchased a bucket of poultry manure for 15 Euros at the weekend from a garden centre.  

I spread the poultry manure pellets on the onions, cabbages and potatoes 🥔 that we have recently planted.

It's smelly stuff and I would  recommend you wear gardening gloves when handling it.  It's  a lot easier than piking and barrowing tons of fym.

That's a job for the Autumn.

Does anyone else use poultry manure pellets?  Do you like them and do give your plants all the minerals and vitamins they require?