General gardening thread

Paul11 said:
I love gardening but it all shuts down for winter and we get outdoors again in the spring.
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I work as a gardener and work 3 days a week for one couple all year round, they have two houses, well ones a hall and the other is just as big. Oh and they are next door to each other so just move between the two as I like. Really need 4 days to be honest to keep on top of everything
 
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deko said:
I'm jealous of people cutting their grass, mine is currently a complete swamp and basically unusable for the kids. This is going to be the 3rd summer in this new build, time to effectively start from scratch with the grass, first job is figuring out how to get some sort of drainage going and then start from what is effectively a dead start.
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New builds are dreadful lawn wise. Just grass dumped on top of rock hard stuff you'd lay your patio on.

I think there was a thread on here about some chaps patio and garden flooding after he had his patio done. You might get some ideas from that if you can find it
 
Amazing what a difference slow release fertiliser has made on our photinia hedge - in a new house (2 years here), and all the properties have the same hedging. Ours must be twice the size of the neighbours just by simply dumping granules on it once a year!
 
deko said:
I'm jealous of people cutting their grass, mine is currently a complete swamp and basically unusable for the kids. This is going to be the 3rd summer in this new build, time to effectively start from scratch with the grass, first job is figuring out how to get some sort of drainage going and then start from what is effectively a dead start.
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If you've lived in from new, do you have a warranty with the house builder still? if so get onto them to sort it, we had the same issue a good few years back in our old new build.
They had to come in, sort out the soil as it was basically rubble and put in some drainage, new topsoil and then a lawn on top of that. Was a fight with David Wilson, but we got there.
 
scarps said:
I work as a gardener and work 3 days a week for one couple all year round, they have two houses, well ones a hall and the other is just as big. Oh and they are next door to each other so just move between the two as I like. Really need 4 days to be honest to keep on top of everything
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What do you to do in the winter? I imagine there is nothing much happening other then sweeping up some leaves?
 
Paul11 said:
What do you to do in the winter? I imagine there is nothing much happening other then sweeping up some leaves?
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Yes lots of clearing up but there's lots of roses/shrubs/Trees on both properties that can be cut back/pruned in winter months. As long as the ground isn't hard frosted which is pretty rare now then bulbs planted, any new shrubs etc the owners bought planted. All borders are topped up with compost/dug over

They are both big properties, so say a winter job in my garden at home that takes an hour is taking a day maybe two there. Plus the Hall which they only bought a year ago was left in a bad way so its taken a year to get it looking half decent.
 
scarps said:
Yes lots of clearing up but there's lots of roses/shrubs/Trees on both properties that can be cut back/pruned in winter months. As long as the ground isn't hard frosted which is pretty rare now then bulbs planted, any new shrubs etc the owners bought planted. All borders are topped up with compost/dug over

They are both big properties, so say a winter job in my garden at home that takes an hour is taking a day maybe two there. Plus the Hall which they only bought a year ago was left in a bad way so its taken a year to get it looking half decent.
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Sounds like a lot of work :) Must be great in the summer.
 
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