When we bought our house 10 years ago, we knew that the garage would need to be replaced. The house and garage are built against a hillside. What’s the groundfloor on the street side is the first floor on the garden side. The garage is 2 storeys, which is pretty handy as it gives you a room to store the garden stuff. The hill is rock, but at the lower end it’s just the ground. The pleople who built the garage were incompetent. One part is built on the solid rock, the other part was just 5cm of concrete on sand. Yeah. Of course the sand gave way, there were tears and gaps that got always bigger and last year the tension finally started to tear the roof apart. At that point we needed to act and had the old one torn down and a new one built. The people who tore down the old garage had it fall into the greenhouse. The people who built the garage had to trample a lot of our terracing.

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The now defunct greenhouse. After 9 months and several angry phone calls the dude finally called his insurance.

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The sad remains of the terraces.

There was absolutely no time to repair the damage this year. Maybe next year, if we get the fence put up this year. As a result, I didn’t even attempt to plant a lot. I grew some courgettes and Hokaido squash. The courgettes were interesting. They germinated quickly and grew into beautiful plants, so I repotted them when it was time. They all died. A few late seeds were still in the tray, so I let those grow and then planted them in the ground. They all but one died. The remaining one has grown past the size where the slugs will eat it and hopefully give more than enough courgettes.

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My courgette

The squash was more successful, I now have 4 nice plants.

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I dind’t grow my own tomatoes but just bought some young plants. They’re in pots so they can be moved should it be a rainy summer.

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Oh, and I planted some sunflowers. Let’s see how they grow.