The Garden: Part One

The garden itself was absolutely wild. Bushes and shrubs had overgrown greatly and, as these pictures show, the sheer amount of work needed to just turn the garden into something at all usable would be huge.

The path was barely visible, nor was the surrounding metal fence. Among the overgrown bushes were bits of rubble and debris presumably from prior projects. 

Although the group wanted to keep intact as much of the natural ecosystem present in the garden, it would have been impossible to transform it as envisioned without removing the vast majority of the overgrown bushes and plants.

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The process of removing the overgrown elements of the garden was long and arduous. In keeping with the group ethos of saving money where possible, all this was cleared using hand tools.

As many of the weeds had been left to fester for sometime, it was imperative that their roots were removed entirely to ensure that they did not return quickly.

Large rubble bags, that had been donated, were used to collect all the roots and trimmings. 

Later, a van was rented so that the bags could be transported and their contents disposed of at a local recycling facility.

Due to the large amount of garden waste that needed to be removed, several trips were made to the recycling facility.

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