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The world's oldest water, which is locked deep within the Earth's crust, is present at a far greater volume than was thought, scientists report.
The liquid, some of which is billions of years old, is found many kilometres beneath the ground.
Research
July 2014 marks the 10 year anniversary of a joint partnership for soil manufacturing between Green-tree, the soil division of Green-tech and Yorkshire Water.
Green-tree was born from a chance meeting between Green-tech owner and Chairman, Richard Ka
A new film, promoting the creation of ‘water sensitive cities’ as a way of addressing the major challenges of water shortage, flooding and pollution, has won a Sustainable Water Industry Group (SWIG) Award in the Communications Category. Commissione
Defra has published its National Adaptation Programme report into what leading businesses, councils and communities, as well as government, are doing to tackle climate threats.
The report calls on businesses, local councils and communities to get rea
The views of everyone from farmers to fishermen; beer brewers to wild swimmers are being sought by the Environment Agency on water quality in England.
The Agency's Challenges and Choices consultation runs for six months until 22 December, 2013.
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Bee Font garden bowl: detail
Discovering a nest of wild bees in my garden spurred me to this post. This is the second nest created in a forgotten clump of grass cuttings. Clearly they love it and find it a perfect environment. The first nest was quit
The hosepipe ban is know on, we are in a new trading environment as of today and the indications are that the ban will be all year even with a wet summer, so we have to adapt or go out of business. Planting plans do not have to be stopped projects ca
I am so happy, at last It is here. First time online launch.
I truly think that in the Future it will be used on many project.
What is the tree water maizer?
A device that found to have massive impact on young trees growth.
It made from recycled plastic
- Katrina enjoyed a great trip to visit a client near Oslo, Norway. Two days on eager creativity ensued as the best design options were explored for this sloping site that frequently finds itself under a metre of snow!
- Matt is nearing completition of
We sell a variety of water features on our website including the beautiful Argent Aqua Sphere:
Water can make a stylish addition to garden. This beautiful sphere is child safe and easy to assemble as it comes with free assembly instr
In exterior design water has always played a vital role, and literally so – vital as in ‘life’. The very earliest gardens we know of were devised as ways of providing access to water which was also used to grow trees for shade. In the otherwise ho
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Hi guys - first post! I've got the above model and really struggling to find out how to check and replace the transmission oil. Just can't locate a dipstick or see how to check the level. If someone could point me in the right direction I'd be very…
"The other issue is, the Type 1 is not free draining, it packs down into a hard pan, unlike chippings and gravel.
Round river gravel rolls around when driven on, chippings, crushed rock has angular edges and doesn't roll around but are free draining."
Round river gravel rolls around when driven on, chippings, crushed rock has angular edges and doesn't roll around but are free draining."
"Sound advice"
"Grass cutting only jobs will massively increase your earnings provided you price them per job rather than for time. If you really want to focus on the more hands on gardening work than grass cutting, then at least fit a few grass cuts in in-between…"
"You might have already seen this, but there is a spreadsheet on working out your hourly rate here: https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3314062352?prof...
And whilst it is an old thread, this might help as well:…"
And whilst it is an old thread, this might help as well:…"
"This is a difficult one, when I started a long long time ago I did not have holidays for 15 years, no pension and continued to work through illness. Unfortunately the only way forward is to replicate this by reducing your outgoings/costs and or…"
Hi all,I'm looking for a bit of advice really if anyone has any thoughts. I'm a mum to a young toddler so work part time and fit hours into nursery runs so for me it works well to have set regular hours at customers' gardens. Eg x2/3 hours a…
"Depitox 500 for the selective herbicide and for the feedback Ive been using Nutrigrow phased release fertiliser, with food results. "
"I also had to clean my shoes to get the dust off them as well, it's filthy stuff to walk on both wet and dry, because of the dust it contains.
It is all over my car as well, if you used around a house or other building it would be difficult to keep…"
It is all over my car as well, if you used around a house or other building it would be difficult to keep…"
"MOT Type 1, a granular sub-base material, is a crushed aggregate, typically limestone or granite, graded to 40mm down to dust.
I was in a car park laid with stone like this today, it's completely unsuitable for areas where there's vehicles, as it is…"
I was in a car park laid with stone like this today, it's completely unsuitable for areas where there's vehicles, as it is…"
"Agree with you on the Honda and as we cetainly will not be buying a prostripe or new 56 stsrted to look for optiond the only thing we have found is the Lawnflite / Cobra 553HRSP-HST which has variable hydrostatic drive but the handles are very…"
"John, thanks for your well considered reply and agree ( mostly) . The variable speed on the 56 I still feel is better than the 3 speed but anyway Hayters presentation on the "new 56" I found to be the usual corporate bullshit that you can expect…"
Hello all,Does anyone know where to dispose of soil in the Billingham / Teesside area?
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Hi guys - first post! I've got the above model and really struggling to find out how to check and replace the transmission oil. Just can't locate a dipstick or see how to check the level. If someone could point me in the right direction I'd be very…
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How to make ends meet as a professional gardener
Hi all,I'm looking for a bit of advice really if anyone has any thoughts. I'm a mum to a young toddler so work part time and fit hours into nursery runs so for me it works well to have set regular hours at customers' gardens. Eg x2/3 hours a…
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Waste disposal
Hello all,Does anyone know where to dispose of soil in the Billingham / Teesside area?
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Country path
Hi everyone, I was looking for a little bit of advice if possible.This is an existing path through a country park near me. This was done 3 years ago now. Can anyone tell me what type of stone/gravel was used for this top layer?Any help much…
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