WHAT JOBS ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY 2018

Spent today removing bath and digging out a pond. Not sure we've made a very good job of it as neither of us has done this before. After 3 1/2 hours we were tired, dirty and beginning to argue - we can never do anything together without it ending in arguments. So packed up and went for lunch. I will take pics tomorrow as need some advice.

 

Should I buy a pre liner to go under the liner?

 

Hope Im not trying to teach you to suck eggs but a spirit level and a long bit of wood is essential

 

We have lined the hole with sand already and although I have a few old rugs there isn't enough to cover the entire hole. I'm not sure we've got the shape right either. We enlarged the hole where the bath was but we were constrained somewhat by the surrounding areas, ie, the bog garden and the banks. I'll take some pics later to show what I mean.

@martin-f yes, have spirit level and wood

 

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  Erica carnea ''winter snow'' I think

 

I think we both need the and is it ok if I share your settee

 

Laying down weed membrane and then adding rocks to make new path. Maybe digging over a fruit bed prior to planting. Depends how cold I get.

 

Hi @NigelJ I'd say knock it on the head mate just after dinner before you freeze

 

Dinner's at 2000hrs or thereabouts. So I will probably knock off at sunset. Anyway tomorrow's an easterly gale so will be even less clement for outdoor jobs.

 

Be pleasant why don't you @NigelJ ...it was supposed to be sunny here tomorrow like today

 

It is sunny here tomorrow, just gusting 40mph+.

 

40mph isn't to bad @NigelJ it's when it's going at 60/70 that it turns depressing

 

Well, yesterday I moved barrow-loads of shredded hedge cuttings to various places in the garden, including mulching around all the fruit trees and bushes (I know, not ideal to use fresh shreddings, but we have a severe cold snap building, so any insulation is better than none), mulching bare parts of borders, and doing the compost lasagne-layering.
Same again planned for today, as the northerly wind is blowing the shredding pile around the garden, and upto the front door...

 

I agree, it's the only way to get the pond level, it's hard to do it by eye and you can end up with more liner showing at one end of a pond.

If anyone intends to build a pool, start with a concrete collar from around six inches wide, then dig out the pond, much less mess that way and the pond ends up the size you want. You can decide what covers the collar later. But if your pond boarders on your lawn, make the collar slope away from the pond, so if you use any chemical lawn treatment, the rain won't wash it into your pool.





The fall on the collar is quite pronounced on the rockery side, to stop anything on the rockery running into the pool, on the other side it falls slightly towards the bed between the path and the garage. Same with the far end, it slopes towards the lawn.





It's worth making a former out of a piece of scrap plywood, if you're going to have a marginal shelf, so that you can get both the position of the shelf and the depth of the pool the same all the way round. Hard to do that by eye.