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We had a "smattering"

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Chickens weren't too keen and needed "coaxing" out of their run

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Was enough for the kids to make a few snowmen though :D

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{SAS}TB said:
Chickens weren't too keen and needed "coaxing" out of their run

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Not sure if you've seen but theres a national chicken lockdown on at the moment due to bird flu: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/avian-influenza-bird-flu-national-prevention-zone-declared
you need to prevent your girls getting in contact with any wild birds (which have been shown to carry the flu) & wild birds getting onto their food. I've seen birds die from bird flu and its pretty damn horrible so we've created an extended netted run for ours.
 
Siliconslave said:
Not sure if you've seen but theres a national chicken lockdown on at the moment due to bird flu: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/avian-influenza-bird-flu-national-prevention-zone-declared
you need to prevent your girls getting in contact with any wild birds (which have been shown to carry the flu) & wild birds getting onto their food. I've seen birds die from bird flu and its pretty damn horrible so we've created an extended netted run for ours.
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Yeah seen that, we had been away for a week and shooed them out of their run while we cleaned the coop out. We've stopped putting wild bird food out to reduce the amount of wild birds visiting the garden and we have three cats which also is a decent deterrent.

They were straight back in when we'd finished.
 
{SAS}TB said:
Yeah seen that, we had been away for a week and shooed them out of their run while we cleaned the coop out. We've stopped putting wild bird food out to reduce the amount of wild birds visiting the garden and we have three cats which also is a decent deterrent.

They were straight back in when we'd finished.
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I do same.
Let them out while cleaning. They get all over my feet if they are in while I'm cleaning.
 
This my relatively small garden.

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Much to do this year. First House bought in 2020.
Basically not been touched this year except for upkeep
 
Unfortunately I live on clay that is only a matter of inches below the topsoil. My lawn is an embarrassment and only the hardiest of plants will grow in the garden. Too much rain or not enough and any reasonable plant just gives up and dies.
 
pp111 said:
Unfortunately I live on clay that is only a matter of inches below the topsoil. My lawn is an embarrassment and only the hardiest of plants will grow in the garden. Too much rain or not enough and any reasonable plant just gives up and dies.
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Sounds like the builders spread a tiny bit of topsoil over the compacted ground surface
 
Blackjack Davy said:
Sounds like the builders spread a tiny bit of topsoil over the compacted ground surface
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Yup. There are literally about half a dozen plants, trees, and bushes that will grow in it. You see them repeated all over the neighborhood. I mean I had a tree planted in the garden. You remember the rains a few years back that caused all the flooding? Come the summer the tree literally fell over cus all the roots had rotted, lol.
 
Are gardens way more expensive than I could've ever imagined? We bought a new build house and as per usual the garden is basically a bit of builders rubbish and rubble covered with a few centimetres of top soil

Got a few gardeners/landscapers to see how much it would cost to level it, put in a little path to the end of the garden and a foundation for a shed... first quote back is £3400. It's a pretty small garden as well so that shocked me. Probably our own faults for being completely naive to the process and costs included but we thought it would be less than half of that - judging from what a friend on the same estate paid to have done - though they did lay the turf themselves.
 
It takes a long time, a lot of work and even more materials if you want it done properly (thus the typical new build gardens).

If your willing to put in the labour you can significantly reduce that but you'll still want a couple of tonne of top soil below the turf to give a decent lawn.
 
Siliconslave said:
It takes a long time, a lot of work and even more materials if you want it done properly (thus the typical new build gardens).

If your willing to put in the labour you can significantly reduce that but you'll still want a couple of tonne of top soil below the turf to give a decent lawn.
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Yeah we've got another 4 coming over the next few days to give us prices, if they're all in that ball park then we'll know we probably expected way too much for far too little. If it comes to it we'll do the nonskilled labour work and hopefully we can then just get skilled trades people to sort out the bits we'd bodge.

All in the quest for a BBQ and Pizza oven for summer, fingers crossed.
 
Interested to see what costs work out to. Potentially buying a new build in a year and toying with the idea of not getting it turfed, digging out and starting a lawn from scratch...
 
I moved into my current house about 1.5 years ago, the inside is all done up more or less how I want, but I need to put my attention to the garden.

I'm not green fingered at all and prefer low maintenance where I can.

There is a landscape company coming over early next week to look at some options, I wanted to float the idea of some kind of outdoor shelter/cover for the patio outside of the kitchen/lounge area, bridging the gap to the garage on the left hand side.

Would this work? excuse my poor paint drawing! :)

Possibly some kind of timber frame/pillars, with some kind of fibreglass roof construct? This area of the back garden is fairly overlooked as there are houses on the level above mine and to the rear of the garden, so I was thinking a sheltered area with a new patio down, and a seating area under the shelter could give me a nice area to sit in, as well as lending some privacy back to the kitchen/lounge rooms.

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Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
Gazebo
We have a pergola which I added a roof to. OSb and felt

Something like https://www.summergardenbuildings.c...akYQ3hdrIVGLievIQ2aO86mF9kn-HEsQaAjb9EALw_wcB
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That looks like it could work, it doesn't need to bridge the gap perfectly, but as a kit I think that kind of thing would be perfect. Large gazebo! :)

I think I definitely want a new patio done as well, not sure what yet. The render means something like stone/grey porcelain (probably) wouldn't work, though saying that the roof is slate/grey, kind of tempted on wood effect porcelain though, might need to get some samples in.
 
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