Garden Projects and DIY

After all the hassle you went through @Fat Controller, it's good to hear it's been worthwhile.

UPDATE The Magic of Moss! Although confined, it is serving the intended purpose of disguising the end of my bonsai bench which wasn't very awe-inspiring from the kitchen window. It's progressing nicely, with a few Japanese-oriented plants still to go in and a few positional aspects still to...

Perhaps Blackboard Paint, Wilko sell small tins.

A poundland tin pie shell pan might work. They are much tougher than they look?

Unless you are frantic about your lawn, I would encourage you to grow better turf, let it become more resilient, allow the grass to more fully express itself (leave it longer) and feed it with humus as compost dressing. Avoid compacting it when wet,maybe tolerate broadleaf such as clover. Mowing...

We live where the soil is wet sits on top of clay

Meadow home renovation update

Today was the start of something I've been looking forward to for a while; garden electrics!The desire is to have lots of nice ambient lighting in the final garden, but to get that requires a bit of early work to make sure things like power is available (you certainly don't want to be ripping...

As @NigelJ said, since you can lift them, do what I do. I have outdoor rugs and just clip them to the fence and hose down. The water runs off onto the vegetation beneath.I assume from what I've read that you can lift yours too. I have lifted, hosed down, allowed to dry and rolled up mine to...

It may be wrong to lead you towards my inclinations but I would venture into my local 'Recycling' depot (Tip) and ask whether they might be able to furnish the item required. Rarely have they failed me. It would likely need stripping and repainting with Hammerite smooth, two coats,; a worthwhile...

That will depend on where your neighbours had been buying compost from. The likes of supermarkets and discount store will have already emptied the shelves of garden goodies to be replaced by Christmas goodies. They only tend to stock garden goodies from the Easter Bank holiday, maybe a week or...

@Sheps and @Nikolaos , nice looking hotels you have! I'm rather sceptical with these modern fashionable thingies but in essence, a glorified tatty corner can actually look nice and seen the very obvious decline of insects around here it's probably a good thing to try. And it was fun to put it...

I didn’t plant the chokeberry trees - I didn’t even know what they are until @Silver surfer identified them for me. They seem to pop up in the neighbourhood. So someone, a while ago, in a garden not too far away, must have planted one….! The birds love the berries, and so they get distributed....

I would start by looking at what plans, land registry documents etc you and your neighbour have with your neighbour. Then have a look at the present situation on the ground, again with neighbour for any sign of old boundary alignment with other neighbours etc. After that see if you and neighbour...

I've recently installed a tool shed and a potting shed - they both came with a single piece roof - which is lifted into place and slots on top of the walls. I could have easily applied the felt before installing the roof. I also found out that you do not tack the roof felt at the rear of the...

I had a hedge hog in my pond a few years ago. I watched it for a few moments before getting it out. Anything that is in the water automatically goes all around the outside trying to find somewhere to scramble out. My pond has over hanging stones around the outside, so kind of a death trap...

Harry the Hedgehog in our garden. I never thought this would happen as the garden is fenced in but there was one small gap. We had a few unusual black poo’s on the side of the pond ,still not convinced we put out some cat food …..that disappeared………could have been a cat……. Until we put the...

Hi,I never completed this now old thread so now being driven indoors by wind and heavy rain I can spend a bit of time to update.Just for interest I made two aluminium petrol tanks; one to copy the original and the round one already shown ready for welding.After making every mistake...

Little shed / workshop update… Working on and off over the weekends, it has taken almost a year to get this built, but I'm finally on the home straight. The workshop has been clad in dark grey metal sheets to be relatively maintenance free and hide into the background of the garden. I just have...

Hi,I've recently been felling 15 tall trees and wondered how to determine their height so I browsed YouTube and here's just one of many videos which I found very useful indeed.I was concerned about the trees landing on the bungalow roof or on the lane at the top of the garden both would...