An insight to the daily life of a garden design and landscaping build up on a rear garden located in Cullompton, Exeter, Devon.
Day 17
Coffee
Marking out the raised planter
For this particular garden design and landscaping project n
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An insight to the daily life of a garden design and landscaping build up on a rear garden located in Cullompton, Exeter, Devon.
Day 16
Coffee
Composite decking mainframe
The composite decking mainframe is taking shape, I want to us
I wanted to follow up on London Stones recent announcement about opening up our second showroom in Kent. We have been searching for a second showroom for the last 2 years. We came really close to getting one this time last year but we had a change of
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How do you build a wall using rammed earth? This blog will show you images and describe how to create a rammed earth Water wall, Designed By Jacksons Landscape Design, Devon
Day 5:
All 600x600 existing paving lifted and stacked, the 5 spot paving bed a
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Open forum activity
"chris if you use option 2 how do you intend moving it when full ?
i can see the disposal problem creating a lot of fly tipping right accross the country "
i can see the disposal problem creating a lot of fly tipping right accross the country "
"These are the company we use - if it helps someone out. 13 locations throughout the East. Our local site is 'Decoy' and Material Change have done a lot of work on it since they bought it off 'Organic Recycling' a few years back.
All sites are open a…"
All sites are open a…"
"Pontefract & Castleford area."
"Same here,
Option 1 - use green bin until full, compact by jumping up and down several times.
Option 2 - supply at extra cost 270ltr green waste bag. A disposal fee once full to take to commercial tip when open, or option 3.
Option 3 - remove wast…"
Option 1 - use green bin until full, compact by jumping up and down several times.
Option 2 - supply at extra cost 270ltr green waste bag. A disposal fee once full to take to commercial tip when open, or option 3.
Option 3 - remove wast…"
"Where in the country are you Colin? "
"the local company who does green waste is still going for the moment . to be honest its a sideline for the farmer but its very useful:)"
"i have the same problem (lawn mowing only) .. My first preference is a compost heap', but some are never going to agree with that ... I tried cut and drop but I can ony get away with that with a handful ... So worse case, is I fill their bin in 2 or…"
"Ask on local allotments, moss makes a great mulch for soft fruit such as raspberries and round earthed up potatos as it breaks down quite quickly. "
"I have the same problem. I managed to convince quite a few customers to have me start a compost area in their garden, others are ok with cut and drop for now or putting in main waste bin, I also plan some burning of cut shrubs that I have to remove.…"
"same here dave am going to be cracking open my heap soon as need to rotavate some of the broken down organic material into the veg growing area, as i noticed some of my crops not doing so well last year. its amazing how much a huge mountain of grass…"
"Exactly the same here Colin.
I had hoped to gather a bit up and then get a skip, but that looks like a non starter as well. Would have been an increased cost but cant be helped. I have about an acre of scarifying in the next ten days - I dont even…"
I had hoped to gather a bit up and then get a skip, but that looks like a non starter as well. Would have been an increased cost but cant be helped. I have about an acre of scarifying in the next ten days - I dont even…"
"Same here too...cut drop or mulch
one old dear I used to work for would never let me put grass cuttings
in the bin...she insisted they were put under large shrubs or bushes
to keep them fed/mulch all over summer tbh it didn't create any
problems a…"
one old dear I used to work for would never let me put grass cuttings
in the bin...she insisted they were put under large shrubs or bushes
to keep them fed/mulch all over summer tbh it didn't create any
problems a…"
"I'm having the same problem, but I'm lucky as im using my allotment to compost as much as I can, the woody waste im stacking up to either burn or get rid of when they open the tip back up."
"What happens when an over zealous forager harvester driver opens the maize foeld up next to your garden"
Waste disposal problems
Anyone else having problems finding somewhere to take their waste at the moment? The two council areas I work under have both stopped garden bin collection and closed the tips. Commercial tips are also closed round here. I've got nowhere to store…
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