Day one!

Welcome to Grandpa Southwellski's Garden.  We, Coco my Grandaughter and I hope you enjoy your visits with us and see how our garden is growing.  We're new to this so don't delete those gardening websites from your favourites just yet.

We have a potting shed, two wheelbarrows, you can see Coco in one here, two spades, a fork and a load of compost.

We planted the privet hedge around the garden today, 50 sticks that looked rather unhealthy to Coco and I, but we followed the instructions, measured each one and used a string line to keep them straight.

We chose privet for two reasons one because we want the birds and insects to have somewhere safe to hide, and secondly Great Great Grandpa Southwellski had very tall privet hedges around his bungalow which was called, yep, High Hedges!

Our runner beans are sown, our potatoes are chitting (Robin our farmer friend told us that's what they do) all we have to do now is dig up all of that grass.

We think its been a great first day in the garden so keep watching because its going to be interesting, educational, and most of all good muddy fun!