Heart of the garden

 Some photo's you see often, I love these steps to my back working section of the garden, whilst a necessary path, I do like to see colour and blooms in this area, it can still be seen from the house. I have dug out my tulips from their huge pot and popped them into a old compost bag, to die back naturally. This tiny shed holds all my canes and other bits and saves me walking into the garage so often, in the top is nets of different sizes and old compost bags, which I reuse around the garden. 

Green house shelves with loads of seedlings and small plants, flowers for cutting in two bags and my tomato tubs, they will go outside once it's warm enough, along the back is my cacti and succulents, they stay inside all the year. I do use my chair often, normally sat just outside in the shade. 

This is a working side, my small plastic greenhouse, now without it's cover is a useful set of shelves, I have a deep tray on each level to stop water running away. My potting tray is very useful here, so there is always bags of compost, I also keep larger plants in it again to keep the water from running away. On my table through the cooler months are these two begonias, they are now starting to form leaves, soon they will be back out in the garden.

My sweet peas are doing well, I have already had one bloom, there are two buckets with carrots in, and two tubs with cabbage and cauliflowers in, soon my cut flower bags and a couple more bags will line along here. I access my raised bed here now planted with salad bits, which is working well, it's a sunny spot. 

I now have 4 bags with potatoes in, last year I grew in two bags, they have been planted at different times, behind my blackberry bush is bursting into life, it is trained to grow along the garage walls. Here is my big bug house and loads of other bug places. This area gets all them morning sun, but is then shaded and protected from the wind. 

Another full space behind our garage, I have my water butt, a storage place for plastic pots, my composter and a wood store, on the fence side two dustbins for leaf mulch, a system which works well for me. My camping rack is out full of plants ready to be planted out, most of these I am hoping the school will take. In the front corner, not seen is two huge tubs, with flowering plants. For years I had a shed here, but this space works better like this.

I have a section of wall in the garage, I don't need much space, the unit was purchased over 20 years ago for use in our conservatory in our previous house,  now it's full of lots of gardening bits, the handy shelves above store most of my fertilizers away from tiny hands. More compost, and my tub with green waste, which will go into my composter, my trug I was given as a birthday present, I hardly use it, I have a plastic one which is always my first choice, maybe once I have flowers I can cut I will use it.

Every garden has a working heart, this is mine, as with everything I do like to see it tidy, I know where everything is, and I know it's safe for the little ones, they have a huge bucket of toys, their scooters and a bike in the garage, so they do come inside. The main thing is everything is to hand, where I use it, the tiny shed has saved me loads of time and bother as often hubby is working in the garage and I don't have the need to go by him. 

The back corner behind the garage is a bit strange, not all the neighbours fences come together, we looked at putting a panel in but it would have been difficult, so we have put chicken wire across the hole, neither neighbour can view it, I have popped a climbing rose in front in the corner, in hope it stops the foxes getting in, so far it is working. I have been training shrubs to grow along our back fence, so it's starting to look nice. 

I think I might just get a top award for getting the most out of a small space, in the summer some of my paths are full of extra pots and bags, but mainly where I walk, hubby is not a fan of too many pots, so I keep them to my back section. We are doing very little this week, staying at home together, nothing planned for the weekend, lazy days, I can always find something to do outside.