Planting in the Garden
This weekend I have forked in some well rotted manure and raked the beds ready for planting. I planted a crown of champagne rhubarb and gave that a good top dressing of manure ( Yes I know someone will tell me they prefer custard on their rhubarb. I have also started some early potatoes in grow bags, sown some beetroot seeds and I have some young early peas that will go in this week.
The new garden shed is up and being used. I now need to build some steps up to it.
On Monday I’ll be wandering around the forest of dean and gathering pea sticks so I can get those early peas out.
We have some picket fencing on order and today we bought a lovely metal garden arch. Once that is up I’ll be buying a wisteria to grow over it.
2 Clematis have been planted to grow over the fences and I have 6 climbing fuschias on order to help them out. Exciting times for the garden
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Marvelous. I’m certain you won’t regret it. A couple of other things you will notice. The air is cleaner and there is less light pollution so you will see more stars at night
Hi
We lived in Gloucester for 33 years. When I retired and sold my company we moved here ( nearly a year ago ). Believe me you won’t regret a move here. House prices are very reasonable,we made a profit on the move.
Cinderford is I think the best of the towns here. This is a lovely little town with local shops run by locals. Plenty of good take aways and in Littledean, just down the road the best chippy in the area.
We have the Palace Cinema which is a fabulous little place and tickets are £2.50 so incredibly cheap.
There are very good Schools here and it is safe to let your kids play outside. We love it here and I’m sure you would too. Drop me an email if you would like any more info
Thanks Ed. We are looking forward to exploring the area this spring with a view to moving before the year end!!
I stumbled across this site while researching Cinderford as my wife and I are thinking of moving from Bristol to the Forest Of Dean. We are attracted to the beautiful forest, the affordable homes and think it could be a great place to bring up our two young boys. I was quite pleased to find this site as a lot of what I was coming across online was very negative of Cinderford. I would love to know what you think of the idea of bring up children in Cinderford. We also read your gardening blogs with interest as growing fruit and veg is something we would love to do once our move to the countryside materialises.