Walled Garden markup

At the end of a long day on Thursday 3rd November, we pretty much finished marking up the Walled Garden in Scotland, a 2 acre wildlife and food forest project.

I use short bamboo canes and baker’s twine string to mark out features and a marked 2 metre length of bamboo to quickly calculate distances. Because it’s hard to transcribe the curves from the plan to the ground with a measuring tape, so I walked the paths a few times to get a feel for them, then used a strimmer to mark the path, then a mower for the final cut of the path.

For the trees we used longer bamboo canes with a name label printed out. As there’s a couple of hundred plants, this took quite a long time!

The next stage is planting the windbreak hedges and canopy layer. I will do a livestream event, detailing the thinking behind the project, the wildlife features, and the range of species. It’s a big, long-term project that will take a quite few years to come to fruition.

* Walled Garden project page https://grwd.uk/walled
* Walled Garden plant list https://bit.ly/walled-plants

## Resources
* Free mini-course ‘Plan a Backyard Forest’ https://natureworks.org.uk/courses/plan
* Free online Forest Garden Spreadsheet of plants https://bit.ly/forest-garden-spreadsheet
* Full online course ‘The Backyard Forest’ https://natureworks.org.uk/courses/backyard
* I 💚 to design wildlife food forest gardens https://natureworks.org.uk/design/

My website https://natureworks.org.uk