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Ok I've finally gotten round to my rear garden...three years on. 😯
I've dug up/tipped all the overgrown flowerbeds and in the process of digging up the allotment-bit. I was thinking of just laying down pondliner in these area/shale etc and putting the odd large plantpot on. Around the edging of the grass put down long sections of trimmed wood(?) to give a defined border between grass and shale/slate- good idea or alternative?
The large greenhouse is coming down but what to put in its place?
Have a firepit in place of the 'allotment' section? How/where?
Ideas please 🙂
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Ps. NO I don't keep bikes in that shed or the brick built shed out of shot. Not a chance 8)
not pond liner - you need a cloth membrane that will allow water through but stop weeds coming up or you'll be walking in puddles the whole time and flooding the rest of the garden.
Ah good point. Where from?cloth membrane
Edit- anywhere cheaper/better than this? http://www.amazon.co.uk/25m-x-1m-Weed-Guard/dp/B0071MBNME/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1378970794&sr=8-5&keywords=garden+membrane
that's the stuff. Most garden centres will sell 2m wide stuff by the metre but no idea if it'll be cheaper than that.
Make sure you have a fair amount of overlap between strips and do peg it down.
Look at how you edge it too if you're going to use gravel or anything as it'll tend to travel around the garden otherwise.
ignore the bike but what I did here was use the boards designed to go at the the bottom of fences with small stakes screwed to them to give a boundary to the slate area - it's been pretty succesful.
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Where did you get your slate from? How is that wood border lasting untreated?
slate came from some place in Derbyshire ([url= http://decorativeaggregates.com/mm5/index.php ]http://decorativeaggregates.com/mm5/index.php[/url]) in 750kg sacks on a pallet. I wheelbarrowed 2 lots through the garage and down the garden.
It's not untreated, it's pressure treated gravel board, Wickes do them;
[i]Gravel boards are the protective barrier between the ground and your fence. By preventing direct contact with damp or wet earth, moisture damage can be avoided. Versatile and pre-treated for external use, ideal for fencing projects.
Protects your fence panels or feather edge boards from ground level dirt
Install between fence posts so that the fence panel does not touch the ground
Pressure treated to ensure durability and prevent rot[/i]
they've lasted a couple of years and still look new.
Wood will be pressure treated most likely, if it's proper gravel board.
Edit: beaten to it.
they've lasted a couple of years and still look new.
You should get 20 odd years out of them, my fence gravel boards are 15 years old and no significant rot on them...