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After 3 days of hard work, we have finished our herb garden with a culinary herb spiral in the centre. Fingers crossed it's chicken proof. >eas2< ImageImageImageImage
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)app( I'm very impressed. I do like your sunny gates and I love the herb spiral ... you've given me a great idea for something similar thank you ... I'm going to have a ponder )t' :-D
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The gates are from Wilk insons and are plant trellis that I hinged on 2 pieces of apple wood.
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Your herb garden is beautiful. Well done you.
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I realy like that. :-D
Great idea using the trellis as gates. )t'
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That is a lovely herb garden, it looks a very relaxing place to sit.
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That herb garden's great, a lot of bricks have become available on the lotty, so I might steal an idea or two! )t'
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It looks fantastic :-D
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Lovely ideas >mmm<
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It's well fenced. Anyone would think you kept......
oh, there they are in the third picture.

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The only plant the chickens managed to nibble before I put up the netting over the trellis was the pennyroyal. In the crescent shaped border is a mixture of wild flowers and herbs.
The 4 willow planters are going to have veg planted in them. The only outstanding thing to do is to sort out the electricity supply to the water feature. I realy enjoyed designing and building this. And the herb spiral didn't take as long to build as I thought it would. There is a layer of chicken compost at the base. (might as well use what the girls provide). I then filled the spiral with barley straw. In that way I didn't have to use much compost when planting up. Finished off with a top dressing of ornamental bark. The only problem is that I keep seeing lost of lovley plants to buy to add to the herb patch. )grin2(
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Wow i really like it! Well done!! :-D
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What a good idea to make a herb spiral. It takes up little room and when everything is fully established will look really great. Well done )t'
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I really like that - must look out for some of that trellis - great idea to use it like that - and the brick spiral is really clever too - got loads of odd bricks in the garden might try that myself.
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Thats looks really good, and of course will look a lot better when the plants have got themselves established. )app(
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