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The cheapest workout is to have 800kg worth of gravel and slate delivered roadside, sign the receipt, then carry those 800kg into the back garden.

It always looks so much! As if I had ordered three times as much as needed, but it will only be a few buckets over, if anything, I know from experience.

Weather permitting, I’ll be digging and sweating and gravelling and making the new garden path this weekend. This will connect the patio area (railway sleepers, far back in the picture) with The BBQ Zone (granite pavement, front right) in a playfully meandering way such that your journey from said patio leads you through the kitchen garden and banana grove, then through the orchard and the decorative garden, past the shed and the camomile lawn. Unless you are in a hurry, you might require as many as seven or eight steps for that, and even more if you may a detour past the greenhouse!

Well. We can’t change the boundaries of our home and garden, but we love it, and the new garden is going to be brilliant.

Enough gravel and slate is here. I can feel it in my shoulders.

Thoughts gardening, home