00:00We bought the house five years ago. It was nothing but lawn, not one plant.
00:04We had ducks from the last place, and they were just trashing everything I put in there.
00:10So they ended up getting re-homed, which meant I could start planting.
00:14And yeah, the rest is history.
00:17The influence was from our grandparents, definitely, wasn't it?
00:20Obviously parents as well, but definitely our grandparents.
00:22And there's photos of us as small children, isn't there?
00:25Holding frogs and doing gardening in Nan's garden and Grandma's garden.
00:29We've just always been into it, so obviously Chris has done just an insane job with this.
00:35This is the end product.
00:37He's just turned it literally into a jungle, so yeah.
00:40I'm proud of you.
00:42That day when you first moved in and I was mowing the dusty lawn at the top there,
00:46if you'd have said to me in five years, he would have created what is this insane garden,
00:52you wouldn't have believed it, would you?
00:54No.
00:55No, but it's set the seed for the next place, I think.
00:58It's pretty low maintenance, to be fair.
01:00It's more when the winter comes along, you've got to watch out for the frosts.
01:03Me being me, which upset the other half at the time, the garden came first, didn't it?
01:08I mean, the house was rack and ruin, but it was kind of left.
01:11We did the bare essentials just to keep her happy.
01:15But yeah, I was in the garden.
01:16We bought it in June, so it was the height of the summer.
01:19Yeah, most of my time was spent out here.
01:22Yeah, just brainstorming, I think, and just, yeah, that's pretty much how it was.
01:26There wasn't a lot to work with, if anything, so yeah.
01:30I think you've taught yourself so much as well, haven't you,
01:32from watching YouTube channels of other people doing similar things,
01:36maybe bigger versions, and you've kind of just built on your own knowledge, haven't you,
01:39and taught yourself a lot as well.
01:41Yeah, surprising what you can learn just by, you know, a quick read every now and again, but yeah.
01:46The more mistakes that we make, the more we learn, and we always say that in the podcast,
01:51that, you know, it's trial and error all the time with gardening,
01:54and obviously we're not experts by any stretch,
01:56but we kind of understand that soil type matters, where the sun is at certain times of the day matters,
02:01things like that, but we learn all the time, don't we?
02:03It can be as easy as you want it to be or as hard as you want it to be,
02:06so it's, yeah, definitely give it a go.
02:08Go and buy a pack of seeds or something.
02:10Yeah, yeah, and we always say as well, no matter how small your garden is
02:12or whether you've just got a balcony, you can always,
02:15you can get a mini greenhouse and start seeds,
02:17you can grow cress on your windowsill and get into it that way, teach the kids.
02:21I think the process, the outcome now is this process, there's been ups and downs in the process.
02:26Yeah, a lot of doubters along the way, didn't we?
02:29But now it's where it needs to be, yeah, it kind of makes sense, yeah.
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