Planting the fruit cage

So we went to a plant auction at the weekend - expensive move!

However we are now the proud owners of 12 raspberry canes, 3 redcurrant bushes, 1 gooseberry bush, 2 tayberry plants, 2 blueberry plants, an apricot tree and a cherry tree - phew!

Bidding on them was fun, planting them all was hard work! However, the lovely boy and I managed to do the lot and put up the new polytunnel too!

(The fruit cage is yet to be purchased, I have seen a nice big one online, and so made the fruit bed the same size as the fruit cage just in anticipation that the bushes will grow big and be fruitful and need to be protected! ;)

Here is the rather lovely new polytunnel (which was a massive bargain!)

and here is the fruit bed/cage (when it arrives!) planted with all the lovely fruit bushes.

Fingers crossed for some lovely fruity treats this summer!

My little secrets:
Polytunnel: only £35 from eBay!
Fruit area, planted with weed barrier membrane covering the area - hoping this will make it much easier to maintain!

Moving to the country, gonna eat me a lot of peaches...

Some time in September 2011 we met an estate agent some where in the middle of nowhere, and viewed our new house - a beautiful old farmhouse ripe for renovation and set in a courtyard of gorgeous falling-down barns, surrounded by 9 acres of paddocks, woodland, overgrown gardens and orchards - our dream!

Four months later and we were in, stupidly happy and just as excited! In the first 6 weeks we have already achieved a hell of a lot and the alterations and improvements are coming thick and fast, and that is the reason for this blog really, to track all of what we are doing and have done to the farmhouse and land, and to share our experience in words and images with anyone who happens to be interested!