Wildlife Garden Week One

During the long boring day's of summer 2013 with the scorching good weather I decided to make a wildlife garden out on our farm. Being a huge enthusiastic of conservation I jumped at the chance to make a difference to the decline in even the smallest animals from frogs to hedgehogs and bee's to butterflies. So when February came around this year I began the work on my E co-friendly garden.

                                                       This is what I had to work with.

We started out simply fencing off the area, then I began making little projects that I found by spending endless hours searching Google. Mostly everything in the garden is/will be made from recycled items that are lying around waiting to be used. There is endless ideas for little or large areas that will make not only beautiful additions to your garden but will become the home to many little creatures.

The first little addition to the garden. A simple drink bottle stuffed with corrugated cardboard perfect home for creepy crawlies.

A great recycling project I found was a use for old wellie boots. By cutting a small hold in the centre of the boot you make a door for the birds to start making their home. Adding a roof (tin) tied on with sting is all the work needed .

As it was the middle of February when I begun the project and it being Ireland I was up to my neck in water and therefore didn't get a lot of work done in the early weeks. 

Stay tuned to see how the project develops.