Porch Garden Bed - Before and After

Here's a quick before and after for our new garden bed in front of the porch.

This is what we started from.

Minu jackhammered the concrete (27 Jan 2008).

Then we lifted out all the concrete rubble from the bed (28 Jan 2008).

Then we started to till the soil in the garden bed (2 Feb 2008).

We found loads of old "fill" just below the surface. When this house was being built they must have used this area as a dump for broken roof tiles, broken bricks, bits of concrete and broken glass. So we dug all that stuff up so new plant roots can have nice loose soil to grow in (2 Feb 2008).

So we ended up with this huge mound of rubble (9 Feb 2008).

And voila! One brand new garden bed. After the paving is done (in 9 days time) we will get some nice fresh soil and compost delivered to fill the bed (9 Feb 2008).

Isn't so satisfying to look back over the progress you've made.