My first garden going to need your help :)

Thank you. I'm fair looking forwards to it now :D

 

Some folks here get a big steel drum, and burn in that. you have to put some holes in the bottom for air. And it only takes so much at a time. A little safer than a pile burn if your not used to it. You can set the drum on top of some concrete blocks also.

 

Ive bought a basket type garden rubbish burner, thought better safe than sorry and I can use it as a compost bin when not using it for burning.

Garden Wire Incinerator / Garden Burner | eBay

I would like to get a drum and make a BBQ out of it though.

 

I'm very interested to learn how the Jerusalem Artichokes in the long trough turn out - won't be ready until October / November, but please put a post on the Forum to let us know.

- Anyone else tried growing JA in a container?

 

Wrong thread? or did I miss something


Update. started my bonfire in the cage thing and then my neighbour came out after 10 minutes and said " I cant keep my windows shut for long, so can you hurry up" so just hosed it out and now have to think of something else.

ive cleared away that messy top bit now and just put my rubbish into a pile and will just have to do it slowly.

 

In your pictures there is a long plastic trough with what look to me to be Jerusalem Artichokes - could just be sunflowers I suppose - but if so, why the trough?

 

Sorry but your neighbour sounds like a funny old so & so... No way i would have chopped everything back just because next door asked me. Its your garden at the end of the day remember . If i was you id let the shrubs roses grow back (If you havent dug them out) and just keep them trimed.
As for the fire what time did you start it? and when does you neighbour go to bed?? .

 

Ahh yes I see, They are sunflowers ( I think I was a bit late planting them ) I planted them in a trough as I was tearing down everything in the garden. When my garden is done everything will be grown in pots, tubs, troughs and hanging buckets and baskets. in fact anything that can take a plant will have one :D

 

i started it at 7pm and she goes to bed around 11/12 ish

She is always telling me that im not allowed to do this or that. She is ok but just thinks her way is the best way

yes im going to let the rose bushes regrow but keep them trimmed so she cant see them.

 

Tell her its your garden :D. Ah abit late then does she ever go out???

 

No. I know we will clash a few times as she likes a regimented garden and I like higgledepigglede

Whoever had my garden before put up a fence next to her fence but left about 5/6 inches of no mans land that is full of weeds. and she keeps telling me about it but when I say to her just get her gardener ( her fence is just two strips of wire) to kill it she wont. I cant do anything about it as its on the over side and I cant get to it. She makes me feel bad every time she talks about it though, as she keeps calling it mine :o

 

Its on her side of the fence though so its her problem not yours.
Next door here can be a bit funny ive resorted to running for cover when ever i hear her door go, as i result i havent spoken to her or herd her complaints for months! an ideal word would be each left to his/her own.

 

Its not really, its in between both our fences , only my fence is made of wood and you cant see the other side and hers is just two rows of wire threaded through concrete posts, so she can see all the mess

Don't know why she is so reluctant to get her gardiner to do it though, she didn't mind getting him to cut down her half of my honeysuckle and in doing so killed my half :(

 

Back to the plastic "blow away" greenhouses; with a little thought they can last a while; I bought a 4 tier one from Wilko's 2 years ago for £10, when I put it up I drove a sturdy cane in to the ground alongside each leg and wired the cane and leg together and it's not moved an inch :thumb:

It's in quite a windy spot too, the cover has just started ripping with all the wind this year so I got a replacement one that's made with reinforced plastic from Wilko's for about £3 or £4.

So just over 2 years, costing around £14 and it's given me hundreds of veg and ornamental plants and its still going strong

 

Right that's good to know! I will make mine very secure, Just need someone to help me put it up .

This is the one I have and it was on sale for £24
Buy Large Walk In Greenhouse at Argos.co.uk - Your Online Shop for Greenhouses.