European Gardening: Where are you in Europe?, 0 by bonitin

bonitin wrote:
I haven’t introduced myself yet, I am fairly new on DG.
I live in Gent (Belgium), which is a historical town, known for its medieval aspects.

I have a tiny town garden of barely 100 m2, which was originally a dump when I arrived some 15 years ago. I had a hell of a time to make it into a little oasis.

It is hallucinating what some people dump into their garden! There was no soil worthy the name.
It was smelling bad and the place was littered with bottles, glass and plastic, socs, sweaters, nylon stockings, broken glass, plastic bags, etc..etc.. Even at a depth of 1 meter I still found junk among the stinking soil.

The best solution would have been to let the topsoil being removed by heavy duty machines, but there was the practical problem that the garden is situated at the back of the house, so there was no way to give access to these machines.
But I didn't let myself being put down by it, as I was so happy to have for the first time a little piece of land.

The very first thing I did was starting to dig out a pool.
It took me years before I succeeded to get rid of all the bad stuff. Each time I introduced a pant , I digged a big and deep hole, moved out the bad soil and replaced it by good potting soil.

My biggest frustration is lack of space, as I love so many plants.
Luckily my brother has made me a little terrace on the first floor which gave me the opportunity to extend my possibilities.


A picture of my tiny oasis