G and BB have inspired me to follow their example and set up a second blip devoted to my garden. I'll use it to track the growth and decay in our patch, mainly the veg garden but some of the other bits as well. You can find the rest of my bliplife here.

We are positioned on a rock where the At Read more...

G and BB have inspired me to follow their example and set up a second blip devoted to my garden. I'll use it to track the growth and decay in our patch, mainly the veg garden but some of the other bits as well. You can find the rest of my bliplife here.

We are positioned on a rock where the Atlantic meets the North Sea. Well, OK it's not quite a rock but it is damn exposed. Orkney is renowned for being windy and being near the sea we suffer from a viscous combination of salt spray and violent wind.

How do you cope with that lot? Well, you build walls, traditionally from stone. But when you're short of stone you find a local garage with an excess of used tyres.

Then you build. First a wall... the ring of tyres. It doesn't look very pretty, but it works well as shelter. We're gradually extending the wall and now we've built water butts out of tyres, using them to shelter individual plants and are growing tatties in tyre towers.

The experiment continues...