My Garden Progress Thread lololol
 

Well i dunno if anyone gives a shit but...

Our garden was in a bit of a mess, it's a huge garden.. My Mam has wanted a nice garden for years and she's getting on a bit now so thought i'd get it done for her...especially since i have calmed down now and don't go out at weekends..keeps me outta trouble

Well half of the garden was a mess, all uneven since Dad & his mate dug it up years ago, and they left all the turfs in a huge pile at the bottom which looked shit

I got a lend of a digger about a month ago so set about stripping the turfs and burying them, and keeping the topsoil to pull back over the top again..



Half way done here...also dug up some of the path that is going down the middle of the 2 halves of the garden as it had grown over with grass..



Then i levelled off the top 3rd of the garden as i am putting 3m x 4m wooden decking down.. The middle part will be grass, and the bottom 3rd will be for veg etc as Dad wants to plant stuff.. The strip on the right of the pic is gonna be another path which goes to the other gate



I loosened up all the soil and Dad rotivated it, then we put up a fence round the veggy patch bit last weekend.. The box at the bottom is for planting herbs & whatever



This bit is the path im extending from the front of the house which will carry on to the left at the back of those trees



These logs are to hold up that path as it would cave in onto the wooden decking



This corner used to be full of nettles, thistles, and manky old logs which were rotting away...cleared it out last year and dug it up and grass seeded it



This is the good half of the garden, that stone bit was all overgrown with grass so i dug it all out, cleared it all off the stones, then spread wooden bark onto it



And planted some flowers in it, 3 different kinds of Lavender, Curry Plant, wild strawberry etc



Thats about the jist of it so far... :zainy:

Oh mate that is beautiful. Dead proud of you and Andy would be to

Looks alright.

I'm not to sure on the rockery, get rid and put grass down and get some little sheep in there and chickens

Bad man ting.

I await the 'needs lowering' joke

The view from your garden is mental btw

What grass are you putting back down? I take it you are quite handy with a digger?

Needs lowering :D

Nice garden mate, congratulations :y:

needs a pond

Dunno i'll just get a bag of grass seed and scatter it, hope it matches the existing grass on the other side!

I work in construction but hadn't driven a digger in nearly 3 years, and i was only on it for one day back then.. But knew how to work them and got the hang of it quickly

looks like meadow grass from the pictures so won't be hard to match:y: aw well that's always handy thing to learn then.

Hmm meadow grass i'll have to remember that...off to look on eBay just now!!

The rockery bit in the middle was where i was gonna put the pond, but Mam wouldn't pay the £130 for a pond liner, tight bitch!! Plus £80 for a solar powered water pump

The logs in the garden here for the path edge and the strainer fence posts are off Dads lorry, he drives a timber lorry.. The fence is 2nd hand fencing that Dad threw on the lorry when he was loading in a forest

The diggers were lent to me by the guys building a new bridge outside our house

I'm getting stone chips for the paths for free from work at the end of the job (always heaps left over)

The wooden decking we are getting all the joists for it from the guys doing the bridge, they have shutters made up which are perfect for it, and they wont need them once they're done with them

So it's all costing fuck all too apart from a few bits

Look at your fucking view! It's amazing. Nice gardening man.

Pete lad you could take the teenies down there in the summer, little blanket rolled out and a picnic hamper and some vimto and shandy and well you know the rest :)

i think he already does that

actually, he told me to keep that quiet lol

If you get me a closer picture I will be able to tell you for sure :y:

LOLOL i never expected to hear that said to me ever, "Nice gardening man!".. Makes me sound like a green fingered :geek:, but fuck it...keeps me off the drink

Thats the plan, the icing on the cake is the Rohypnol plant i planted..."oh here sweetheart smell this one it's beautiful. . ."

I'll get a closer pic hopefully tomorrow...it's lashing rain today big time, was fucking lovely yesterday i was out topping up the tan after work!!

cool man, it is the same down here about 1 maybe 2 days of great weather then the sky opens and ruin's everything :n:

Better to be a green fingered geek than a white nosed mess eh..

LOL debatable.....but good way of putting it :afro:

quite gorgeous, nice view that

if you go to the place you were going to get the pond liner from they have off cuts usually they have off cuts from massive ponds they cant sell on. Unless you were going to get it online as you live in the middle of nowhere, also why stop at the garden pete carry on into the field

Cheers :hug: I'll get some better pics of the view from the hill outside the house...it's lovely on a nice day

LOL doubt the farmer would be happy...the garden is big enough as it is anyway

The pond liner wasn't just a sheet liner it was a preformed plastic liner...for a small pond thats what i needed, would never look neat enough with the sheet liner..

Another part of the garden i've started is the side of the house where the coal etc is kept...used to be stacks of coal in bags here with allsorts of shit, was a mess.. Got 2 coal bunkers off one of the lads at work who's father-in law was dying to get rid of them as he wanted wooden decking down where they were..

Coal bunkers neaten the place up...still a heap of work to do here, includin digging out all the old chips and shite and putting fresh chips down...and gonna give the oil heating container a lick of grey paint as it's a disgusting mess

Nice sheep

cool story bro.

Or maybe that doesnt apply to garden based threads.

Nice bit of landscaping there man, get some more features in, maybe some dry stone walling around would look good, sure you can find enough decent faced stone around there!

Mmmmkay. lol

Seriously that is a cool view. I take it you are on oil/diesel central heating living out in the sticks?

That's the best thing about living in the middle of nowhere. You can do what you like on your land and nobody moans about anything.

Hmm not sure where i could put a dry stone wall...would probably look out of place

Planning growing another hedge directly opposite the one thats there on the other side, so there will be the old hedge, then the wooden decking, then a patch of grass, then another hedge...to hopefully keep the wind at bay a bit

There's a few other bits about like a corner with mint in it, a flower bed beneath the sitting room window, and gonna stick a raised flower bed on the other patch of lawn

Also have an archway bit which i'll stick some climbing roses on to grow up it or something...i dunno i'm new to all this shit but got a few ideas

Can't wait to get it done not only for the fact it'll look good but because every weekend i've been working hard on it and i'm pretty fucked, this is the first weekend where i've done fuck all

Our sheep are prettier than yours!

Looks good though, I'll post some of my views from my back garden for you, have a scottish/welsh mountain war :)

LOL no really, just normal herbs etc...i aint smoked da herb since i was about 19 :afro:

We dont even have central heating, the oil is to heat the Rayburn however you spell it...you can cook on it and it heats up our kitchen...the rest of the house you need to light the coal fire in the sitting room that we don't use, which heats the radiators in the bedrooms

The bathroom though has no heating which is a cunt in winter!!! Freezing getting out the shower

Bring it on muthafucka :boxing:

And your sheep may be prettier but ours are sluttier...they really are up for anything :sweetheart:

My nan still has a rayburn to power the house, their cool as fuck IMO, but for a chefs point of view, shit to cook off, I still havent mastered it, thank fuck for gas :)

Slutty sheep ey?

The only scottish girl i fucked was slutty, something in the water up there? If so, il have to take a visit me thinks :y:

We have an electric cooker to cook on but if you're not in a rush the rayburn does the job!

Yeah theres lots of things in the water...sheeps piss, deer piss...even dead sheep and deer sometimes :/

The h0es are the same as everywhere tbh some of them love the tail and some are a bit more conservative about it.. I live near a little village of about 900 people and theres only a handful of girls in it that i haven't been with, doesn't take long to get through them tbh...a few tidy ones and a few rotters same as every other place

Are you god?

Personally, I always carry a tub of duck fat with me at all times for the hoes that are into stink rather than pink, don't want an 18 year contract with anyone

Nah i'm not god unfortunately but that 900 people isn't all fuckable girls lol...maybe 25 or something are birds my sorta ages...and i've not even started on the children yet :detective:

I prefer the stink to the pink, big time!! Lash on the KY and dog them senseless!! fuckin hussys

Hi Peter's garden.

This is bringing back memories of ground force... Just need to get your mum to do a Charlie Dimmock impression!

Pics would be needed for sure!

Nice gesture of you Peter :y:

needs some yokshire paving really!

Loose thin vest, no bra, peanuts being smuggled? im on it

I'm not a bad cunt really :detective:

Yorkshire paving in the Highlands?