Does anyone know anything about gardening?

Just looked at the prices, the saving is not sufficient to invest in coke/whores/custom steel frame, so you might as well spend too much for a watering can.

Get a firepit / chimnea

Surely big patio heater to do your bit for global warming?

I hear you've been involved in refurbishing one in Westminster. :)

That was a completely unnecessary slur on bugs, of course.

but those are parasites with one travelling around the country apparently.

Ok, ta for info, we'll chop n fry unless they're wriggly.

We cant change the orientation of our house, or how the sun moves around the Earth, so have to find a way to work with those factors.

massive mirror setup

Pitch the pergola roof? Although not strictly speaking a pergola but will get over your height issue.

6 of the 15 ranunculus bulbs up. Think the birds and squirrels made off with the rest.
Put some pansey, calendula and marigold seeds in over the weekend too.

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I wouldn't panic. I don't think everywhere gets them. They might be in our soil or something - we haven't been rotating crops as well as we should've been

200 IQ play.

Good call! Hunting one out now...

Thats a good call but think others have made quite strong argument for not using the fence posts at all, and thinking aoibut future proofing its prob best not to either...

Brilliant. I was gifted a beautiful but useless bug hotel that's been ideally sitting on the back wall. Will give this a go with the young fella.

rhowe is right, a bit of research required, this was how we introduced our daughters to nature 20 years ago, not bug hotels but creating natural habitats for bees, spiders, ladybirds to overwinter. i lost count the number of insects we adopted with pet names and the host of winged critters nesting and feeding too.

The one I was gifted is on a SE facing wall, clean, sheltered and away from foliage and out of the wind. I think the materials are all wrong though which is why I was saying it's beautiful but useless.

Will defo do my reasearch and build one out of the correct materials though because I agree it's a brilliant way to get the kids into nature and bonus if it sorts out the aphids!

Understood, ta.

Hügelkultur?

Could be one for here... but any garden designers who could help tackle a narrow garden in London, SE22?

Do you have anything in particular in mind at the moment? I might be able to help, but I would be at least a month away.

Hügelkultur

Yep sort of : )

i think he had a load of rubbish to dispose of so he dug a big hole and buried it...

The one I was gifted is on a SE facing wall, clean, sheltered and away from foliage and out of the wind. I think the materials are all wrong though which is why I was saying it's beautiful but useless.

Will defo do my reasearch and build one out of the correct materials though because I agree it's a brilliant way to get the kids into nature and bonus if it sorts out the aphids!

excellent stuff let us know how you get on.

Thanks for sharing, I built two of these yesterday out of spare wood in the garage and spare fence panels.
Looks okay but takes a loooong time and more materials than you expect to fill it up

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And another one mounted below the first one and behind the water butt so difficult to take a pic from the front

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Has anyone ever had any bugs living in one of those? We've had one in a few places and never really seen evidence of life - perhaps they're all in the pile of rotting wood instead.