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On Sat, 24 Aug 2013 08:16:49 +0100, Derek
wrote: After many years with a small garden Thanks for so many replies, A little more info, and a rely to some questions/ Not a new garden, size 100m by 15m south facing, overlooking fields at far end, I will be having a Greenhouse veg plot. multiple compost bins and a polytunnel. No children, No Gnomes, no Washing lines, no Roses, and I plan to be there until I am chucked on the compost heap (but hopefully that will be in thirty plus years, ) Veg plot and hard landscape I can sort out, but the flower beds, (lots of grasses?) lawn and trees, I will take inspiration from books. Thanks PS Will be finding space for my 100+ varieties of fuchsia! |
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Thanks for the latest info Derek.
Would add I like your multiple compost bins. We have two and that is not enough when you garden a lot. The trouble is that our gardens do not permit bigger bins, but what I have done is to store the ready compost in a 1 tonne green builder bag. Also, as near as possible, everything goes through the shredder, we have superb neighbours and even save them the trouble of taking their stuff up the tip, we have their garden refuse for shredding. They are not gardeners!! As for shredders, I have a Bosch and it is superb. 3 spare blades which I re-sharpen myself and never let them get too blunt. Mike "Derek" wrote in message ... On Sat, 24 Aug 2013 08:16:49 +0100, Derek wrote: After many years with a small garden Thanks for so many replies, A little more info, and a rely to some questions/ Not a new garden, size 100m by 15m south facing, overlooking fields at far end, I will be having a Greenhouse veg plot. multiple compost bins and a polytunnel. No children, No Gnomes, no Washing lines, no Roses, and I plan to be there until I am chucked on the compost heap (but hopefully that will be in thirty plus years, ) Veg plot and hard landscape I can sort out, but the flower beds, (lots of grasses?) lawn and trees, I will take inspiration from books. Thanks PS Will be finding space for my 100+ varieties of fuchsia! |
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"Derek" wrote in message ... On Sat, 24 Aug 2013 08:16:49 +0100, Derek wrote: After many years with a small garden Thanks for so many replies, A little more info, and a rely to some questions/ Not a new garden, size 100m by 15m south facing, overlooking fields at far end, I will be having a Greenhouse veg plot. multiple compost bins and a polytunnel. No children, No Gnomes, no Washing lines, no Roses, and I plan to be there until I am chucked on the compost heap (but hopefully that will be in thirty plus years, ) Veg plot and hard landscape I can sort out, but the flower beds, (lots of grasses?) lawn and trees, I will take inspiration from books. Thanks PS Will be finding space for my 100+ varieties of fuchsia! One suggestion for you, is to visit a couple of NGS open gardens in your area each month of the year you are interested in your garden looking good with a note book, and make a note of the plants looking good, especially those plants that go over well. -- Charlie, Gardening in Cornwall Holders of National Collections of Clematis viticella and Lapageria rosea cvs http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk |
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In article ,
Derek wrote: Thanks for so many replies, A little more info, and a rely to some questions/ Not a new garden, size 100m by 15m south facing, overlooking fields at far end, I will be having a Greenhouse veg plot. multiple compost bins and a polytunnel. No children, No Gnomes, no Washing lines, no Roses, and I plan to be there until I am chucked on the compost heap (but hopefully that will be in thirty plus years, ) For that size of garden, I do not recommend compost bins - they are too small, unless you go for the industrial ones. With my 100 metre by 10 metre plot (i.e. including the house), I cycle round c. 3 compost heaps, each a 4' cube. These are made up of metal poles, old polytunnel plastic and pig wire (and I need only two of them - the third heap is the one waiting to use. I also use a Bosch 2200 quiet shredder. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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Nick mine are not purchased ones, they are home made and bigger. We ditched
our Dalek things as hopeless. Mike wrote in message ... In article , Derek wrote: Thanks for so many replies, A little more info, and a rely to some questions/ Not a new garden, size 100m by 15m south facing, overlooking fields at far end, I will be having a Greenhouse veg plot. multiple compost bins and a polytunnel. No children, No Gnomes, no Washing lines, no Roses, and I plan to be there until I am chucked on the compost heap (but hopefully that will be in thirty plus years, ) For that size of garden, I do not recommend compost bins - they are too small, unless you go for the industrial ones. With my 100 metre by 10 metre plot (i.e. including the house), I cycle round c. 3 compost heaps, each a 4' cube. These are made up of metal poles, old polytunnel plastic and pig wire (and I need only two of them - the third heap is the one waiting to use. I also use a Bosch 2200 quiet shredder. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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