Tagged “obvious mistakes”

I knew I was going to be digging a pond, and I knew roughly where the pond needed to go. Obviously, the first step is to dig a big hole. But how big? How deep should the pond go? What shape should it be? It turns out that there are some really simple guidelines when it comes to digging a pond. I knew that this was going to be a wildlife pond, so I didn't need to worry about fish overwintering in the pond because the fish would eat the wildlife I wanted to attract.

The first couple of months had really about taking the garden by the scruff of its neck and starting to tidy things up. By this point, I'd been making notes and thinking about things for the best part of two years and by this point I had a whole bunch of completely impractical ideas and a garden that was nowhere near that at all.

Obviously, I needed to have some way to turn those ideas into something that could be practically done, and something that I could actually start working on. In the back of my mind, I also had the idea that I didn't want to do anything in terms of ripping things out of the garden or even doing any more than generally tidying up the flower beds until we'd had enough time to see what the garden did. At the very least, I figured a year to watch the garden change and work out what was in there wouldn't be a bad idea before I started ripping stuff out.

Well, maybe not everything needed to wait an entire year.