Gardening

[Wansworth]

There is so much to do in the garden and I mean alot that it si like owning an old wooden boat ashore that at the beginig seemed like a two year project and now is without a finishing date....the difference is I dont make lists!

 

[Nicholas123]

Simple solution;Let it grow moderately wild,enjoy the beauty of nature & give yourself a pat on the back for not contributing to Global Warming

 

[johnalison]

You could write a good article for YM - "The Yachtsman's Garden".

My garden is fairly well marinised:

No vegetables.
No summer flowers.
Tiny lawn that a neighbour mows.
Nothing that ever needs watering.
Wild bits that the hedgehog likes.

 

[tidclacy]

Wife looks after the garden with a little help from me and I do the boat.

Why do we have lawns: spend a fortune on making sure it grows lush and green then spend a fortune cutting it?

 

[prv]

Simple solution;Let it grow moderately wild,enjoy the beauty of nature & give yourself a pat on the back for not contributing to Global Warming

Trouble is, if I did that it would be a single heaving mass of bindweed within a season.

The gardens each side are more or less entirely neglected, so whatever I do on my patch there are always runners swarming in under the fences.

Pete

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Well, we have a Hozelock watering system that makes sure things don't die too seriously while we're away - surprisingly inexpensive. Sadly, it won't work off a water-butt, so it will have to be disconnected during hosepipe bans, despite being a very efficient means of watering the garden. Not a problem this summer!

Mowing the lawn before going away is a good move!

Flippantly, I'd suggest Agent Orange for those who REALLY don't care what the garden looks like!

 

[prv]

Well, we have a Hozelock watering system that makes sure things don't die too seriously while we're away - surprisingly inexpensive. Sadly, it won't work off a water-butt

Presumably a suitable pump would solve that?

(Mounting the water butt on 12-foot stilts might give enough head to work it, but I'm guessing the pump would be easier to arrange )

Pete

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Presumably a suitable pump would solve that?

(Mounting the water butt on 12-foot stilts might give enough head to work it, but I'm guessing the pump would be easier to arrange )

Pete

Arranging a timer on the pump to work in synchronization with the timer on the watering system would be the tricky bit; the watering system is a drip feeder type that operates for a couple of hours a day. I suppose some sort of header tank with a float-operated switch for the pump would do it. But we operate the garden without permanent power supplies; our water-features are solar powered and so on. The lawn-mower is the only thing that needs mains, and that gets used for an hour or less every week or two. I don't think I could get the necessary head with a solar powered pump; they mostly give less than a metre lift!

The 12 foot stilts were considered, but not very seriously - a picture of what happens when the soft ground here makes them fall over occurred to me!

Being boaty, I guess an electric bilge-pump with a solar charged battery and an inverted sense for the sensor would work!

 

[BlueLancer]

May I suggest 3,2,1. That's 3 of Gravel 2 of Sand and 1 of Cement,its called concrete, and if it needs to look like grass you can add green coloring. Sell all your gardening tools and buy a brush and shovel that's all you will ever need.

 

[Nicholas123]

Trouble is, if I did that it would be a single heaving mass of bindweed within a season.

The gardens each side are more or less entirely neglected, so whatever I do on my patch there are always runners swarming in under the fences.

Pete

My garden has been left to pretty much return to nature for the last two years & though I do have bindweed (if that is the curious trailing plant that has a nice trumpet like white flower).I don't have a problem with it.Just snip off a bit here & there & my main protagonist is brambles......It is simply wonderful & I have more butterflies insects grasshoppers & birds than I have seen in thirty years.Simply marvellous!

Watch the film "HOME" on YouTube & see how you too can help save the planet

 

[Nicholas123]

Well, we have a Hozelock watering system that makes sure things don't die too seriously while we're away - surprisingly inexpensive. Sadly, it won't work off a water-butt, so it will have to be disconnected during hosepipe bans, despite being a very efficient means of watering the garden. Not a problem this summer!

Mowing the lawn before going away is a good move!

Let your garden return to the natural inhabitants of these Islands & you won't have the problem of trying to water them....they will just die or thrive by their own efforts (you won't have to apply social security) & why would you want to cut the grass when the various types of natural grass that will thrive would provide you with so much entertainment & delight
(of course you may well put some of the nurseries & artificial purveyors of elitism & fashion who thrive on discrimination against certain species out of business but what the hell,they will just have to go & get a real life)

 

[Nicholas123]

May I suggest 3,2,1. That's 3 of Gravel 2 of Sand and 1 of Cement,its called concrete, and if it needs to look like grass you can add green coloring. Sell all your gardening tools and buy a brush and shovel that's all you will ever need.

Very droll and for the ultimate aficionado of that school of thought why not just go & live on the Moon or Mars & leave the rest of us behind (we are probably doomed on this planet anyway because of that attitude) you will just be one step ahead of the rest of us