Digging out a flat space in rear garden.

The rear garden is being designed to be productive with as much fruit and vegetable plants as possible. However every garden needs an area to help engage and enjoy the garden. I need a flat entertaining area. So I dug out an area put the soil on the down side of the slope retained that with rocks making a nice rock wall. I decided that the curves of the bank on the top side of the flat area was a bit messy so today I dug out a nice curve. (with the help of all the chooks of course).  The area created now is a much more asthestically pleasing and creates more useable space. The idea is to have a sunken fire pit lined with blue stone blocks. This will be able to be used to burn off the never ending bark and branches that constantly fall from the remaining gum trees in the rear garden. It will be a focus point for friends and family to sit around on cool winter nights.  I will put a post with a BBQ plate attached so I can cook on this fire pit as well. That is the vision for the future,  today is the foundation of the area.

The chooks 'helping' dig out the the bank. The Black
area in the middle on the left of the photo is the site
for the fire pit.