My Garden Progress Thread lololol - Saxperience

Peter_D · 9th July 2011, 16:42

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...

the_mighty_booosh · 9th July 2011, 16:43

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

Prickle^p · 9th July 2011, 16:44

Looks alright.

the_mighty_booosh · 9th July 2011, 16:45

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

Mochachino · 9th July 2011, 16:45

Bad man ting.

m11ler · 9th July 2011, 16:46

I await the 'needs lowering' joke

The view from your garden is mental btw

-shuggles- · 9th July 2011, 16:46

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

Rogue_Shadow · 9th July 2011, 16:47

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Originally Posted by m11ler

I await the 'needs lowering' joke

Needs lowering

Nice garden mate, congratulations

dave_1 · 9th July 2011, 16:48

needs a pond

Peter_D · 9th July 2011, 16:48

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Originally Posted by -shuggles-

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

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

-shuggles- · 9th July 2011, 16:52

looks like meadow grass from the pictures so won't be hard to match

aw well that's always handy thing to learn then.

Peter_D · 9th July 2011, 16:56

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

K17NEY · 9th July 2011, 16:57

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

the_mighty_booosh · 9th July 2011, 16:58

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

Chr15 · 9th July 2011, 17:00

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Originally Posted by the_mighty_booosh

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

-shuggles- · 9th July 2011, 17:00

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

Peter_D · 9th July 2011, 17:04

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Originally Posted by kitney

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

LOLOL i never expected to hear that said to me ever, "Nice gardening man!".. Makes me sound like a green fingered

, but fuck it...keeps me off the drink

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Originally Posted by the_mighty_booosh

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

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

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Originally Posted by -shuggles-

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

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!!

-shuggles- · 9th July 2011, 17:06

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Originally Posted by Peter_D

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

K17NEY · 9th July 2011, 17:08

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Originally Posted by Peter_D

LOLOL i never expected to hear that said to me ever, "Nice gardening man!".. Makes me sound like a green fingered

, 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!!

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

Peter_D · 9th July 2011, 17:11

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Originally Posted by kitney

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

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