Beginnings

Welcome :)

Here we have my little corner of the blogosphere. I'd like to use this blog to collate all of my musings and mental notes as they come to me. You might find the vast majority of them will be about my attempts to find a way to turn our outdoorsy space into a (somewhat) functional one. Our location is not terribly ideal you see, we are on a slope, the high side of the street, our block is small with the house in the center of it. To the left (east) of our house is the "wasteland": a space big enough for an underused trampoline, a wattle tree, a ridiculously spiky bushy thingy, and an ankle deep swamp when it rains due to the run off from further up the hill. Beyond the fence is a highway. To the right (west) of the house is the "back side": an enclosed courtyard-type space with artificial grass to make it kid-friendly and garden beds shaded by a mature liquid amber tree. At the rear of the house is a dumping ground, a hot water system, and some stepping stones leading to the back side. The front of the house is north facing, sloped, open, and is the location of the only really currently productive space... but if we end up having an El Nino summer I'm not expecting much of my plants to survive as it gets hot there.
This year is my first serious attempt to grow some things, mainly herbs, some veg, and poppies and other flowering favourites (at this point anyway). So far so good... fingers crossed!