The Timbers went up there in 1986 when the house was built. I'll have a search to see what they might have been treated with. Some have a bit of...
We have a lovely bee box. It has a hole at the bottom for them to get into, some cotton wool inside and a nice liftable roof with a sheet of...
We've just had most of the roof trusses taken off our house and they are out front in a tempting heap.We thought about burning them in the wood...
I went to a lecture by Jekka last year and she said that mint in a pot grows roots around the edges of the pot, which are then at risk from frost....
Aha! I saw the 280 high limit, resized my nice big photos to that, and when I posted they were barely viewable. Now 800 x 600 - I can do...
I haven't quite got the hang of the likes, thanks buttons and smilies but I'd like to say now that I'm very grateful for all these very helpful...
The garden is triangular. It's about 25m wide on the narrow (house) side, and goes down about 100m.The pics are 1) The garden from the house....
It's north west facing, and slopes down to the Bristol Channel so there's salty wind to contend with too :-) I'll try to work out how big it is....
I fancy that, but I'm not sure we'll be able to grow potatoes. I can barely get a fork it's own depth into the ground in some places, it seems to...
Hi allI've done things back to front and posted before introducing myself :)I've had a big overgrown garden (in Clevedon, Somerset) for 18...
Oooh - that sounds like disaster! I hadn't thought of that but I should have. Someone has built a gravel path to the bottom, sort of stepped but...
Hi Ziggy, thank you. I'm looking forward to being active on the thread. Right now the garden frightens me, but if I can get into gardening it'll...
We bought a house 18 months ago with a huge steeply sloping garden. We've only had a very small garden before and don't really know what we're...
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