Given that we just have a square of grass that’s not in such great shape we dedided to dig some of it up and create a bed. Some of the area round the current garden was actually a tarmac farmyard at some point in the past so when we started taking up the grass and digging we kept hitting big clumps of tarmac. Thanks to our stint of conservation volunteering in the US we’re dab hands with a pick axe and managed to borrow one from a neighbour to complete the job.