Our Project - The garden
Dit gedeelte van de tuin wordt al eerste aangepakt. In 2005 wordt al een begin gemaakt met het tweede deel, met onder andere een boomgaard. In het derde deel komen ooit enkele kampeerplaatsen. Hier plannen we de parkeerplaats voor auto en aanhangwagen. Because of the size of our terrain we split it into three parts. We build a fence around the first part hoping that it will keep out some unwanted animals.

Click on each part of the image to find more information about our plans and progress. This information is located in the lower section of this page.

On the next page you find some impressions of the metamorphose of the garden.
Phase 1

We immediately start working on the garden around our <fermette>. At the day of purchase we buy wooden posts. We build a fence around this part of the garden hoping it will keep most unwanted animals out.

In February the soil is not too dry. We drill a hole into the clay and using a sledge hammer the posts are put in place.

 

Read more about Phase 1.

Phase 2

Only when a neighbour farmer cuts the grass we see the full size of our garden.

On the south side we will have a vineyard with apples, pears, cherries and peaches.

Next to it we plan our future kitchen garden, but we also reserve some space for a swimming pool...

More to the right (to the north) we will have bushes and trees.
Fase 3

In this part of the garden we want to have a small camp site. It should be really simple: five or six places with some trees and bushes. It will not be before 2007 that we start working on it and then it will have to grow, because now there is not any shadow.

The entrance to the camp site will be next to our future parking area.
Parkeerplaatsen

Behind the pigs stable we plan a few parking places. We will also store our wood there.

We will have to dig out the ground (approximately 20 cm) over an area of 40 mē. Then it will be filled with gravel. We think we may need about 20 tons.