The first post

So, we decided to start working on our garden - it is basically a mess. The previous owner just grassed (poorly) the whole thing. There are gaps in the grass, stones in the grass (the previous property - according to a drunk in our local bar - burnt down so there is poor quality of soil thanks to the stone etc), no planting areas, dead trees and misplanted trees (they need 2 feet gap between them and they are right next to each other and, more dissapointlingly, they are right next to out A/C unit) amongst the many other things. Couple this with the minimum effort we have put into the garden and you have something which is more likely to be deemed a disaster area by the local town than an area of beauty!

Anyway, we want a beautiful garden (who doesn't) but we don't want to spend thousands on landscaping so we are going it alone. Two complete beginners, shovels and the will to complete a project. The mission is to transform that garden to a garden we can be proud of and sit in.

This blog is going to document this transformation so that people can offer us friendly advice about what to do and what we are doing wrong. I cannot say this enough: we have no gardening experience at all - we re just going for it.

We hope you enjoy and we hope you can offer advice and help.

Finally - and most importantly - this is a picture of it on day 1...

Note: to the right of the photo, those are the two trees blocking our A/C unit.