Post Your Garden!

Welshman · 1 May 2021 at 15:35

BallistixOnZ490 said:
Fortunately my back garden is only 30m2 and the front is less than a third of that.

Maybe 50-60m2 in total with the border.

I have no idea how people maintain massive gardens without paying others loads.

My back garden is 25mtrs long and 15mtrs wide……i pay zero money to anyone and do the whole lot myself. Even this year i have built a seperate vegetable garden too. Working from is superb for keeping a garden going

spluff · 1 May 2021 at 15:41

Welshman said:
Last wednesday it was covered in snow……..and for 16 mornings in april it was covered in frost too

Wow I am surprised that didn’t kill the grass seedlings..... is it a special grass you put down?

I heard that cold slows it and frost can kill it.

Welshman · 1 May 2021 at 15:42

spluff said:
Wow I am surprised that didn’t kill the grass seedlings..... is it a special grass you put down?

I heard that cold slows it and frost can kill it.

Nope, just a standard hard wearing grass seed from ebay

b0rn2sk8 · 1 May 2021 at 16:21

Grass is pretty hardy, mine was growing all winter and I had to cut it to keep the length in check.

BallistixOnZ490 · 1 May 2021 at 16:32

Its hardy until you have crap soil that just lifts away when cut. All this digging should hopefully fix that.

MR_Punk · 4 May 2021 at 15:42

BallistixOnZ490 said:
Its hardy until you have crap soil that just lifts away when cut. All this digging should hopefully fix that.

Very true, when we and the neighbours moved into our new builds a couple of years ago they got the site to lay their law. I on the other hand purchased the turf from the sites providers separately (and saved a fair few quid mind) and prepared the ground properly. There were so many bits of crap in the soil as it had been literally a building site. I got a rotavator in and took my time with the preparation. 2 years later and my turf is lovely, level and green and next doors is not.

Annoyingly last week I managed to scorch a big patch of turf with my fire pit which was most annoying as I now have had to relay a big patch, give it a month and it wont be noticed.

BallistixOnZ490 · 4 May 2021 at 16:16

I'm still digging out rocks and slabs that shouldn't be as high up as they are.

Delvis · 4 May 2021 at 19:43

BallistixOnZ490 said:
I'm still digging out rocks and slabs that shouldn't be as high up as they are.

I mean, I found an entire intact slab under my grass, so count yourself lucky

Mr.Cookie · 4 May 2021 at 23:34

Your all doing it wrong, report the wife/husband missing and the police will dig it for free!

Obviously just send said partner away for a week or two

Buffman · 5 May 2021 at 07:08

New house and new garden. Safe to say the dog enjoys it more than the old "small" block paved garden!

Dumb q - what's the easiest way to fit a rotary washing line in the floor? Postcrete? I saw brabantia do one that just stabs into the ground but not sure if that'll last the test of time?

{SAS}TB · 5 May 2021 at 22:41

Very nice

dlockers · 5 May 2021 at 22:50

I have the Brabantia spike, it's not lasted well in terms of keeping straight. I plan to postcrete the spike in when I get time. The line itself is cracking though.

Delvis · 6 May 2021 at 06:40

Buffman said:
New house and new garden. Safe to say the dog enjoys it more than the old "small" block paved garden!

Dumb q - what's the easiest way to fit a rotary washing line in the floor? Postcrete? I saw brabantia do one that just stabs into the ground but not sure if that'll last the test of time?

You either post Crete it permanently, get a spike that goes into the lawn, or set something else tubular into the ground.

potatolord · 7 May 2021 at 22:09

BallistixOnZ490 said:
I have no idea how people maintain massive gardens without paying others loads.

My experience is you just abandon at least half of it, and pretend it's "for wildlife".

I really, really have to cut the trees at the back this year..

Delvis · 12 May 2021 at 10:57

Anyone have any thoughts on the below?

I've dug out the area I'm going to be patioing, but it's turning into a mud bath with the rain ATM, is it worth covering or will that not help?

fish · 13 May 2021 at 17:54

can you not fill the area with hardcore as you are should put that under the patio to make it stable anyway.

Delvis · 13 May 2021 at 18:05

fish said:
can you not fill the area with hardcore as you are should put that under the patio to make it stable anyway.

I could but it needs flattening and spreading out a bit more, there's puddles (I don't mean tiny ones) so it would be counter productive

fish · 13 May 2021 at 18:26

You can try and cover it with plastic/tarp but then you have a piece of plastic/ tarp to get rid of. with ours I dug down laid 3 inches of type 1, compacted it (making sure there was a run away from the house), layer of sand to level then laid the slabs on a dry mix and brushed the dry mix between the joints. It hasn't moved and there are no puddles/ standing water during rain. Although the garden has lots of heavy clay and fills up with several huge puddles. I aerate the soil sand have dug it over and added sand but not enough.

Delvis · 13 May 2021 at 18:30

fish said:
You can try and cover it with plastic/tarp but then you have a piece of plastic/ tarp to get rid of. with ours I dug down laid 3 inches of type 1, compacted it (making sure there was a run away from the house), layer of sand to level then laid the slabs on a dry mix and brushed the dry mix between the joints. It hasn't moved and there are no puddles/ standing water during rain. Although the garden has lots of heavy clay and fills up with several huge puddles. I aerate the soil sand have dug it over and added sand but not enough.

Yeah it's all being done properly just there's no point throwing type1 in to a bunch of holes that are full of water

Guess I'll have to wait it out

Thomas. PLease. · 16 May 2021 at 19:43

The endless rain has done my overseeding some good. Grass finally starting to look decent again, and almost finished painting the fence.