in a frogs eye

The Frog Garden.

This spring John built a new garden. He had an interesting concept. He found this in a magazine but we lost the magazine so if someone reading was the writer of this please get in touch and I will give credit where credit is due as this is a great little garden.

In a nutshell. He dug a shallow wide hole close to the woodshed (the Woodshed is  called the Wendy House). He lined this depression with heavy plastic. He layered broken bricks, gravel and broken concrete (just rubbish that will drain) onto the plastic. He divided the hole into three -lengthways, and created a channel through the middle part with concrete blocks. The outside two parts he filled with  the excavated good soil and compost, etc.  So the raised beds are in a U around the channel of water. With a boardwalk running above the channel.  He weeds and works from this little bridge.  He ran a pipe from the guttering on the Wendy house to the channel. This filled the channel with water when it rained. This water filters outwards and waters the plants. It is so simple. And it would be perfect in a small backyard garden. 

It grows fantastic peppers and eggplants. I worried about mosquitoes but this little garden  is noisy with these guys.  This is why it is called the Frog Garden.

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