Post Your Garden!

I think i'd be going in with a good set of manual cutters (or machete?) and mapping out where things are in terms of metal etc then clearing what you can with the brush cutter and round the metal sections manually. You could create a 'fire break' then spray but its not great for you or all the wildlife that'll be living in there.
 
Damn some really nice gardens in here. I should probably stay out i've got garden envy already just looking out my window at whatever is going on with mine. Going to take about £10k to fix it up. 2022 it shall be!
 
IceStorm said:
Hi,

Im looking for some advice, sadly i dont have pictures currently



but im open to more ideas
Click to expand...

My family member had something similar.

What I did ask buy a 5in1 petrol strimmer and bought a mulching blade (oregon mulching blade on amazon) and just carefully mulched it all while keeping an eye out for any solid objects.

Cut all the brambles to around 6 inches from ground then used weed killer on them. Then after a few weeks, loosened ground up then pulled them out.

 
Long time lurker around here!

We recently moved into our new property with a small, awkward shaped back garden. Untouched for 15 years.

I spent the guts of the last 2 months doing this in between work (Evening & Weekends).
Just need to lay some grass now, though not the best time of year.
Still planning on installing some cedar cladding over the rear fence to introduce more softness into garden. And some planting.

Before


After









Not the worst result (For a software engineer :p )
 
Last edited:
After 2 years of moving in and trying to maintain the existing garden, we decided to rip it all up and start with a blank canvas.

Before we bought the house:
qzHncPf.jpg
TZsR8hQ.jpg

During The Work
XKoCx1I.jpg
0t4VxLn.jpg
69KFwZ9.jpg

AFTER
47dn59n.jpg

I did want to keep the shed but it was over 20 years old and starting to fall apart so decided to remove it (which was great fun!).

Got 2 guys to come in and clear away the old turf and lay the new turf and it looks fantastic now!

We have a 10 month old and he loves crawling around the grass.

Plan next year is to add a garden office (and make use of the existing soak away) and create some bark borders around the edges and have some potted plants!
 
Got my back garden coming along how I want it:

frosty.jpg




All that is left to do is the additional third garage to the left with a workshop along the back of all three garages and the hot tub on the upper patio out of view to the right, hopefully will all be done before Christmas as our neighbour is a builder a doing all work for me. :)
 
Gibbo said:
Got my back garden coming along how I want it:

frosty.jpg




All that is left to do is the additional third garage to the left with a workshop along the back of all three garages and the hot tub on the upper patio out of view to the right, hopefully will all be done before Christmas as our neighbour is a builder a doing all work for me. :)
Click to expand...
Very nice :)

That shot would have looked much better with a Ferrari in it though ;)
 
IceStorm said:
my concern with using a spray is that we have a nature reserve next to us, the water goes directly into there area, i cant avoid the water as i dont actually know where it is in the mess, we hacked through some and it does not look like its very thick stems, just lots of them, other areas im sure will have thick stems which the crush cutter will be fine on, its just this one area that's likely full of metal, though its good to know in one of the other areas my old caravan is in it, its just a burnt husk, im told some vandal set it on fire years ago
ill update how we get on
Click to expand...

You’d be surprised how much progress you can make with a few machetes, a cheap chainsaw, and some petrol to start fires. I’ve cleared about 2000m2 with relative ease and have about another 1100m2 to go, which I’ll probably leave until after the house is built. Clearing a path of about 60m in length through our forest area only took about a day, and it’s good exercise. I wish I’d taken more pictures when we first got the land, but almost all of it was covered in thick vegetation. This is pretty much how it looks now.





 
Folks some excellent gardens here, ill post a pic of mine when the weather picks up! but can i ask about some of these super lush lawns im seeing, mine is fine but could always improve, whats the routine and when do you do it?
 
@Cyrus The single most important thing you can do is cut it regularly (once a week minimum) and make sure you set your mower to a high setting. Cutting it short to save you cutting it for a few weeks doesn't do it any good. I cut mine between 50-70mm. Other than that, lawn fertilizer. I've been lazy with mine this year and have only applied fertilizer twice (March and July). I use Evergreen complete 4 in 1 which kills most weeds, the others I dig out when I see them (little and often).
 
On the subject of lawns, what's a reliable way of clearing clover? It's only a rented property but I like to look after it best I can and there's one large and one small patch of clover growing now!
 
Thirded for regular cutting at a higher cut, the lawn mower that was left at our house only cut at one low height and killed off a lot of the grass. I just set it to 50mm and do it every week/ couple of weeks.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom