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Sleepers are expensive, so do your sums to work out total costs first.

An impact driver is worth every penny when putting in lots of screws. I've been using these in 75mm and 100m lengths for some new raised beds:


For the inside liner, I've been using DPM from Screwfix. Cut it to size and then stapled into the timber.

 
Things are starting to look good in the garden

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I reckon it wont be that long until the first strawberries, the tower planters have been great:

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So many birds this year. The lawns are being depleted of worms and grubs. It is good to see though,several pairings of blackbirds a gang of starlings, bossy sparrows and I believe the odd finch. I sit out on the patio and they get used to my presence, coming quite close.
 
#Chri5# said:
Sleepers are expensive, so do your sums to work out total costs first.

An impact driver is worth every penny when putting in lots of screws. I've been using these in 75mm and 100m lengths for some new raised beds:


For the inside liner, I've been using DPM from Screwfix. Cut it to size and then stapled into the timber.

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We've decided to do edging bordering instead. Both beds back onto a fence, edging would be easier and cheaper and take less space.
 
Scalped the lawn last night then scarified it this afternoon. Then went over it with the lawn mower again. Was expecting a ton of thatch to be pulled out again but was pleasantly surprised at how little.

1 green bin of grass for scarification and the clean up cut. Will throw down some seed and look about getting some fertiliser!!.

Pretty pleased how it looks already. All the work I put in last year seems to have paid off!!

 
tres said:
Thought I'd post my garden, mainly to revisit this post in 5 years and hopefully see a big difference.
Started late last summer so all fairly new changes.

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Typical new build square of turf, unfortunately north facing garden.

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with typical new build mini budget patio

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First thing was to sort the patio out

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Went for a simple grey porcelain, much much nicer than old, and a userful 11 x 3m

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Better patio but still such a new build boring square. Decided to start with a shed.

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4x3m shed. Unfortunately I gave the base a tiny slant to help rain run off, which meant it wasn't a perfectly flat base, which meant the shed is a little wonky in places and the felt has a constant ripple..

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Next we dug a stone path, but the area was completed waterlogged, so made a stone soakaway and connected it to the main drain

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We built some very chunky, two-tiered planters. The aim is to grow things a couple of ft higher than the fence, which would in turn block out lots of the houses on the left.

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SO much soil to fill them. Have since planted some cherry blossoms and flamingo willows on the back level, with some small acers between them. Hopefully in 3-5 years, that side will have grown nicely

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We wanted next go get some height on the back fence, and also enclose it a little more. Wife really wanted a laurel hedge. Again, 3-5 years should reach above fence height and provide some needed greenery in the gardens

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Wet winter has ruined the grass but at least we've started to turn it into a garden!

Thanks for coming to my ted talk

We are very novice when it comes to gardening, so would welcome any tips or advice, especially around planting things to help 'enclose' us a little more.
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One year on from the above post. I thought it would push me to work on it some more.
Laurel hedge slowly establishing at varying levels of success.
No more waterlogged soil, unsure if drain is the cause of just a very dry winter. Grass much happier.
Planters need some love, had a baby recently so they've not seen much love since last year. Up to now, there has been no planning, just chucking random things in.
Wisteria seems to be taking off.
30ish ducks live out the front, these two have taken up residence in the back garden.
 
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@tres I’m finding it takes a year or two for Laurels to get going. There’s probably some really good root growth atm.

Mine all had lovely wee flowers on them early March and now I can see all the new growth. The ones out the front some have offshoots taller than me. They been planted a year more than the ones out the back.

I seen a video on YouTube of a guy (think it was proper DIY) fixing his fence which he had planted some laurels and mentioned come year two they had hardly did anything but now they were over 6 foot.

I have no clue how I’m supposed to be trimming/pruning them tho hah.
 
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