Does anyone know anything about gardening?

Try SketchUp Make

I never grovel over gravel, only hills, same project but different sections of the same riverside path. That section is gravel over landscaping membrane which allows moisture through, but stops mud oozing upwards into the gravel.

Cheers.

@Colin_the_Bald - ah OK that makes more sense!

I was wondering where the soil kept going from my strawberry planter. Little fucker. Any hints for keeping squirrels out? Apart from an air rifle

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^ you could borrow my cat for a bit. he loves tasty squirrels.

Sprinkle Cayenne pepper down, worked for me.

Squirrels are dick heads.

Cayenne pepper? Will try that out. Not sure about the cat as have a dog so they'll all be chasing each other round.

Saying that we've got a mouse that the trap and poison isn't getting and my dog (schnauzer) seems indifferent too.

chicken wire

Just make sure your aim is good.

Hope this gets in their nether regions

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hmmm chilli infused strawberries

hmmm chilli infused squirrels

Just found this tool:

http://www.findmyshadow.com/

Amaz

Off the back of that I'm now trying to work out if there is a reason you'd put a shed on the sunnier side of your garden?

Greenhouses makes sense, but I wondered if there was a particular reason for regular sheds... Damp?

Surely you want to be growing on your sunnier side and the shady side for the shed.
Unless you've got a huge garden and there's plenty of room.
Or your shed is actually a man cave and you fancy a skylight or, better still, a turret :)

Our sheds going in the redundant shady corner, our garden tools don't need the sun

The neighbours motherfucking Japanese knotweed. Fucking immigrants

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Ask them if you can spray every fucking inch of it with glyphosate weedkiller every fucking day. If they say no, do it anyway and casually mention that JKW has resulted in law suits in the past.

Take plenty of pictures which show the plant is growing in the neighbours property and yours is currently weed free. It's an offence if they fail to prevent it spreading.

@Kat_Balou and @Tomo187 - cheers thats my thinking. I just wanted to check.

Once we're in I'll get some photos up, but essentially there are two sheds on the sunnier side - which is also the shorter side of the garden. It seemed odd to me.

As the garden faces West I wanted some sort of morning sun trap decking area at the bottom end.

The only thing I can think is that there is a 5m x 2m outbuilding on the sunny/short side which the sheds are next to. So there may have been building rubble, or it may have just seemed logical to build the sheds next to it.

My better half seems quite keen to get rid of at least one shed anyway. For some reason she thinks an outbuilding and 2 sheds is excessive.

Built the raised bed today anyone know anywhere that can deliver top grade top soil in bulk to South East London?

I've been doing a lot of slug squashing in the rainy weather but there are so many of them... so I was in the shop today for some other stuff and the "organic approved" slug pellets caught my eye, but I'm still worrying about how they might affect the toads and other creatures in the garden (so didn't buy).

I found this piece - http://www.hostalibrary.org/firstlook/RRIronPhosphate.htm - which is really one of the only critical things I found. Anyone have an opinion on it? I know ferrous phosphate has been mentioned in this thread. I guess I find it difficult to accept that something that kills one creature doesn't harm any others, but I am no scientist.

I've not got a slug problem, snails though. Can't walk outside without hearing the crunch crunch crunch of their mobile homes beneath my boots.

Beer traps - http://www.slugoff.co.uk/killing-slugs/beer-trap

I agree. I use the beer substitte (cheaper):

"It’s the scent from fermenting yeast that attracts the slug, so if the thought of wasting good beer is just too distressing, an equally potent attractant can be concocted from:
2 cups of warm water
2 tablespoons of flour
1 teaspoon of sugar
½ teaspoon of yeast
...and mix well"

Combined with these: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/12-x-BEER-SLUG-SNAIL-SAFE-SIMPLE-EASY-TRAP-TRAPS-NO-CHEMICALS-GARDEN-SOIL-GRASS-/191866612547?hash=item2cac242b43:g:E4kAAOSwWF5XLi~v

I'm collecting lodas of them. That said all my stuff is stil being eaten. I keep finding lots of other slugs around my allotment :(