Wits end !

Our back garden is around 35ft long & slopes steadily upwards and to the left, as we live on a hill. The left hand edge is 2ft higher than the right, and the far end backs onto a field with sheep & cows in. We are 900ft up on open grouse moors and get bad winters with a lot of snow.
There is nowhere level to put a deckchair so I have to sit on the grass. We are both old and decrepit and cannot do heavy digging, although we have started a square level veg plot. I long for flowers and shelter and a SEAT !
IS THERE ANY HOPE AT ALL FOR THIS GARDEN ? lol !!

 

It sounds ace to me. The view from my garden is the rather grotty end of Sheffield city, I'll swap you any day

 

Awh am sorry to whine and seem ungrateful . I will take a pic of the next coo that leans over the fence and eats the remains of my pansies and you can have it blown up & stick it on your garden fence

 

I don't think it's all hopeless Ming. You don't have to level the whole garden but you could probably level a small area for a couple of chairs to give you a nice place to sit. You could put a little screen of windbreak or something round it to give you some shelter and grow some flowers in pots to brighten it up. Make a little oasis and enjoy.

 

Ming,what about this for a solution.....
A dear old gentleman in our village had a sloping lawn and to get a level seat...he cut down the back legs on a chair by about 6"...Perfect!:gnthb:

 

:rotfl:

 

Thats Brilliant Pal hahaha

 

Yer all mad LOL !

 

Some areas do a swap of skills there's a website but can't remember it's name. Maybe u could find someone to dig a bit of your garden flat and u go help them with something else. Can u post some pics??

 

No pics just now cos the camera died. I am leaning on a son to come and do it but it's hard going...however he is on holiday for ten days so I have time to get heavy

 

Was that the Landshare scheme that Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall was setting up?

 

Ok. What we have decided to do is to level off a bit in the top corner and buy a nice summerhouse/pottingshed . In front of that will be a level bit of grass. Paving would be better but totally beyond us . Can't do it until next year because the top bit is a jungle of nettles, and in front of that is my tatties Am working now on what to do around the other three edges.That will still leave a sloping hill in the middle but thats ok. Will do to hang the clothes out and eed the birds on !

 

No it was around a long time before that and it was about peopl helping each other oh and I still can't remember what it's called :cnfs: Think it begins with L

 

This isn't it but it's similar http://www.swapaskill.com/

 

This is it http://www.letslinkuk.org/