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Boggy Garden
I am shortly moving into a newish house (7 yrs) old. The rear garden is very
boggy, the grass is sparce and quite muddy do to it being wet. It's in need of drainage but how do I go about doing this? I am no gardener and dont wat to dig it all up and put drainage in so can anyone suggest a solution? Thank you all |
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Boggy Garden
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:26:04 +0100, "SamanthaBooth"
wrote: I am shortly moving into a newish house (7 yrs) old. The rear garden is very boggy, the grass is sparce and quite muddy do to it being wet. It's in need of drainage but how do I go about doing this? I am no gardener and dont wat to dig it all up and put drainage in so can anyone suggest a solution? Thank you all Turn it into a bog garden proper. -- http://www.freedeliveryuk.co.uk http://www.holidayunder100.co.uk |
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"mogga" wrote in message ... On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:26:04 +0100, "SamanthaBooth" wrote: I am shortly moving into a newish house (7 yrs) old. The rear garden is very boggy, the grass is sparce and quite muddy do to it being wet. It's in need of drainage but how do I go about doing this? I am no gardener and dont wat to dig it all up and put drainage in so can anyone suggest a solution? Thank you all Turn it into a bog garden proper. -- http://www.freedeliveryuk.co.uk http://www.holidayunder100.co.uk I could do but I may lose the children at some point. Nah I want a nice garden |
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"SamanthaBooth" wrote in message ... "mogga" wrote in message ... On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:26:04 +0100, "SamanthaBooth" wrote: I am shortly moving into a newish house (7 yrs) old. The rear garden is very boggy, the grass is sparce and quite muddy do to it being wet. It's in need of drainage but how do I go about doing this? I am no gardener and dont wat to dig it all up and put drainage in so can anyone suggest a solution? Thank you all Turn it into a bog garden proper. -- http://www.freedeliveryuk.co.uk http://www.holidayunder100.co.uk I could do but I may lose the children at some point. Nah I want a nice garden Stab it all over with a fork and add lawn sand. Several times, judging by how wet you say it is. And try to keep kids and dogs off it till it dries out a bit. Steve |
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"shazzbat" wrote in message ... "SamanthaBooth" wrote in message ... "mogga" wrote in message ... On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:26:04 +0100, "SamanthaBooth" wrote: I am shortly moving into a newish house (7 yrs) old. The rear garden is very boggy, the grass is sparce and quite muddy do to it being wet. It's in need of drainage but how do I go about doing this? I am no gardener and dont wat to dig it all up and put drainage in so can anyone suggest a solution? Thank you all Turn it into a bog garden proper. -- http://www.freedeliveryuk.co.uk http://www.holidayunder100.co.uk I could do but I may lose the children at some point. Nah I want a nice garden Stab it all over with a fork and add lawn sand. Several times, judging by how wet you say it is. And try to keep kids and dogs off it till it dries out a bit. Steve Hi Steve thanks for the reply. When you say "lawn sand" would that be sharp sand from a builders merchants? Or am I wrong here. I am no gardener and need to know where I would buy it from, thanks |
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"SamanthaBooth" wrote in message ... I am shortly moving into a newish house (7 yrs) old. The rear garden is very boggy, the grass is sparce and quite muddy do to it being wet. It's in need of drainage but how do I go about doing this? I am no gardener and dont wat to dig it all up and put drainage in so can anyone suggest a solution? Thank you all The question you have to ask, is, 'Why is it Boggy?'. Is it the lowest garden in the area and all the other gardens 'drain' into it? Is there a stream 'wanting' to show itself? Not as daft as it sounds, my Son in Law had a boggy area so he got a JCB in and dug a pond! The stream at another part of his garden just 'vanished' before showing itself in the Village Pond outside his land. Obviously via the boggy area. Now everybody is happy. Do you have a broken drain somewhere and all this rain we are having ends up in the garden? If your garden is the lowest, you do have a bit of a problem. To drain the boggy area, the water has to go somewhere. Water runs downhill. Is there anywhere the water can go if you drain by some means or other? NO NOT your neighbours garden downhill ;-) OR, is your garden on a bed of clay with just a bit of "Top Soil" chucked on when the house was built? :-(( You might have to investigate once you move in. Best of luck Mike -- www.rneba.org.uk. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association. 'THE' Association to find your ex-Greenie mess mates. |
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"SamanthaBooth" wrote I am shortly moving into a newish house (7 yrs) old. The rear garden is very boggy, the grass is sparce and quite muddy do to it being wet. It's in need of drainage but how do I go about doing this? I am no gardener and dont wat to dig it all up and put drainage in so can anyone suggest a solution? Everywhere is like that this year (and last) so is it really a constant problem or just the last couple of very wet years? -- Regards Bob Hobden |
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"Bob Hobden" wrote in message ... "SamanthaBooth" wrote I am shortly moving into a newish house (7 yrs) old. The rear garden is very boggy, the grass is sparce and quite muddy do to it being wet. It's in need of drainage but how do I go about doing this? I am no gardener and dont wat to dig it all up and put drainage in so can anyone suggest a solution? Everywhere is like that this year (and last) so is it really a constant problem or just the last couple of very wet years? -- Regards Bob Hobden Bob I read your comments about 'everywhere' and thought, ours isn't wet or boggy, even though we have had our fair share of rain as well. Then I realised why, and Samantha might like to take note of some pictures I have just taken. http://www.myalbum.com/Album-C7WJKALZ Everything grows in 'raised' beds, not as in Sleepers etc, but all beds and the lawn is raised with the lowest parts being gravel paths We are also on very old and well worked soil. We had veg in the garden when we first came in. Hope that helps Samantha Mike -- www.rneba.org.uk. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association. 'THE' Association to find your ex-Greenie mess mates. |
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Then I realised why, and Samantha might like to take note of some pictures I have just taken. http://www.myalbum.com/Album-C7WJKALZ :-( Sorry about the hazy bits on some pictures, I was sitting at the computer and photographed out of the windows and caught the nets in some of them. I later got to my feet and went outside :-) Mike -- www.rneba.org.uk. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association. 'THE' Association to find your ex-Greenie mess mates. |
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"'Mike'" wrote in message ... Then I realised why, and Samantha might like to take note of some pictures I have just taken. http://www.myalbum.com/Album-C7WJKALZ :-( Sorry about the hazy bits on some pictures, I was sitting at the computer and photographed out of the windows and caught the nets in some of them. I later got to my feet and went outside :-) Mike -- www.rneba.org.uk. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association. 'THE' Association to find your ex-Greenie mess mates. Your garden is beautiful, are you near preston Next doors house/garden is a lot higher than mine so that will explain the water. Besides digging it all up and draining it all, i have decided raised beds are the way to go, even with sleepers, gravel etc, that way it wont flood. |
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"SamanthaBooth" wrote in message ... "'Mike'" wrote in message ... Then I realised why, and Samantha might like to take note of some pictures I have just taken. http://www.myalbum.com/Album-C7WJKALZ :-( Sorry about the hazy bits on some pictures, I was sitting at the computer and photographed out of the windows and caught the nets in some of them. I later got to my feet and went outside :-) Mike -- www.rneba.org.uk. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association. 'THE' Association to find your ex-Greenie mess mates. Your garden is beautiful, are you near preston Next doors house/garden is a lot higher than mine so that will explain the water. Besides digging it all up and draining it all, i have decided raised beds are the way to go, even with sleepers, gravel etc, that way it wont flood. ??? Or pass on down to the neighbours the other side ? ;-)) Nice one ;-) Mike -- www.rneba.org.uk. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association. 'THE' Association to find your ex-Greenie mess mates. |
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"SamanthaBooth" wrote in message ... Your garden is beautiful, are you near preston Samantha, my full apologies, I missed that bit :-) No I am in the Isle of Wight. My wife is the gardener, I am the 'Dig a border here, put a path in there' man ;-) Much to the disgust of many of the owners of this site, if it was left to me, I would 'Concrete the lot and paint it green' ;-) Mike -- www.rneba.org.uk. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association. 'THE' Association to find your ex-Greenie mess mates. |
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"Martin" wrote in message ... On Thu, 1 May 2008 17:12:18 +0100, "SamanthaBooth" wrote: "'Mike'" wrote in message .. . Then I realised why, and Samantha might like to take note of some pictures I have just taken. http://www.myalbum.com/Album-C7WJKALZ :-( Sorry about the hazy bits on some pictures, I was sitting at the computer and photographed out of the windows and caught the nets in some of them. I later got to my feet and went outside :-) Mike -- www.rneba.org.uk. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association. 'THE' Association to find your ex-Greenie mess mates. Your garden is beautiful, are you near preston Judging from his related albums he is somewhere in the Netherlands. -- Martin Isle of Wight and quite a few urglers contact me before they come on holiday :-) Mike -- www.rneba.org.uk. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association. 'THE' Association to find your ex-Greenie mess mates. |
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Isle of Wight and quite a few urglers contact me before they come on holiday :-) An urgler has emailed me about the following http://www.iwcp.co.uk/News/50M_SHORT...ICTED_1 .aspx Yes. Tourism is dying. Hotels are being demolished and blocks of Apartments are being built. Factories are being built and houses to house those willing to work in them The Isle of Wight as a tourist destination has had its day. Once the bridge is built, it will be easier for the Industrial side to compete with "England" Still a beautiful place to retire to :-)) If only they would stop pestering "ANYONE" with a bit of land called 'garden' to sell it and build on it :-((( Mike |
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