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We hate it so much, we had our garden landscaped about 9 months ago.

 

It's now all pebbles, reclaimed railway sleepers and plants that require no maintenance.

 

However, we still get weeds :(

 

Oh and the cat's got the biggest litter tray in the world :D

 

Our cat chooses to crap in the Japanese Maple Tree pot (huge) - christ knows why when they have a whole garden to do their busness in!

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Jill, are you an uphill gardener?

 

That's what you get for putting a half decent subject thread on TMS.

 

I actually quite like gardening, providing I've already got the area in some sort of order. At the moment its in chaos, although there has been progress since I last mentioned its poor state. Like it is, I loathe gardening, but I'll just have to weed [sorry] my way through it all to get to the good times.

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We hate it so much, we had our garden landscaped about 9 months ago.

 

It's now all pebbles, reclaimed railway sleepers and plants that require no maintenance.

 

However, we still get weeds :(

 

Oh and the cat's got the biggest litter tray in the world :D

 

My Ex used to be a landscape gardener, so a fair bit of her horticultural and landscaping knowledge rubbed off on me. Having said that, where is the semi-porous plastic membrane under your gravel to stop the weeds coming up..? Or failing that... why aren't you popping out into the garden once a week to remove said weeds..? They'ed be easy to remove, as they've no foothold in gravel.

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My Ex used to be a landscape gardener, so a fair bit of her horticultural and landscaping knowledge rubbed off on me. Having said that, where is the semi-porous plastic membrane under your gravel to stop the weeds coming up..? Or failing that... why aren't you popping out into the garden once a week to remove said weeds..? They'ed be easy to remove, as they've no foothold in gravel.

 

We do have landscape fabric underneath the pebbles and I do pull up a weed or two every morning on the way to work. Dandelions don't seem to realise that they're not supposed to root in landscape fabric :(

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We do have landscape fabric underneath the pebbles and I do pull up a weed or two every morning on the way to work. Dandelions don't seem to realise that they're not supposed to root in landscape fabric :(

 

Let me guess.... no, don't tell me... you've got it set too deep, so the tiny amount of whatever you've covered it with is behaving as a biomass for weeds.

 

A slight case of.. oh dear, bit of a screw up, maybe..? ;)

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When the gardens just been done, lawn's mowed, weeds cleared, I always think I love gardening, but at this moment in time I hate it. My garden is a total mess and despite the good weather this weekend it was a between doing that or doing 5 hours of ironing .... the ironing one, but now i kind of regret it

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Let me guess.... no, don't tell me... you've got it set too deep, so the tiny amount of whatever you've covered it with is behaving as a biomass for weeds.

 

A slight case of.. oh dear, bit of a screw up, maybe..? ;)

 

I wouldn't know sweetie. My son's friend of many years is an award-winning landscape gardener (special rates for me :D).

 

I think it's the cat's constant 'fertilising' that's encouraging the weeds, landscape fabric or not :)

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We hate it so much, we had our garden landscaped about 9 months ago.

 

It's now all pebbles, reclaimed railway sleepers and plants that require no maintenance.

 

However, we still get weeds :(

 

Oh and the cat's got the biggest litter tray in the world :D

 

 

I once chopped a cat clean in half with a spade for crapping constantly in my garden. Funny thing is, it never did it again.

 

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We're surrounded by neighbours with cats and they all seem to want to crap in our garden (and we don't have a cat!) - anyone got any good ways (apart from cutting them in half with a spade) of stopping them ?

 

Yes, two.

 

Either, buy a plastic/rubber fake snake and put it in the garden. Cats hate snakes so wont let their defences down to crap while one is watching.

 

or

 

half fill a 2 litre coke (or any other fizzy drink) bottle with water and leave this in the middle of the lawn.

 

May sound/look silly but apparently it works.

 

So my gran says anyway

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Its a job I detest. I hate mowing the lawn and when I had a few weeks off about 3 months ago, I started making a border round our front garden. Did one side then the day ran out and I havent been arsed to finish it off. Its one of those things that when you get into, its not bad, its just the thought that puts me off. That and having a bad back which springs up from time to time puts me off!

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We have a prety big garden and I hate gardening so I just told my wife she can do what she likes with it and I won't complain.

 

Thankfully she's planted loads of blueberry bushes everywhere and a few raspberry ones too. We've also got the only good climbing trees in our road so we get a lot of neighbour kids coming round to play in them. Luckily Norway isn't the kind of country where the parents sue if the kids fall.

 

All of our neighbours have neat flat lawns and those neat little trees in lines which I ****ing hate.

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I get interested in gardening once a year when planning things to grow over summer, then lose all interest. Unfortunately we're surrounded by people with immaculate gardens, so I get nagged by the other half to at least keep ours clear of weeds.

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We're surrounded by neighbours with cats and they all seem to want to crap in our garden (and we don't have a cat!) - anyone got any good ways (apart from cutting them in half with a spade) of stopping them ?

 

Although cats seem really stupid, they soon learn.

 

Any flea ridden moggy that ventures into my garden & tries to sh*t in my borders, pull up some plants or murder a few birds, gets a bucket of water thrown over it (if near enough) or a stone heaved in it's direction.

 

Although surrounded by cats, I haven't seen one in my garden for months.

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Any flea ridden moggy that ventures into my garden & tries to sh*t in my borders, pull up some plants or murder a few birds, gets a bucket of water thrown over it (if near enough) or a stone heaved in it's direction.

 

That is animal cruelty.

 

Although you may find it a pain that they may crap in your garden, a bucket of water / water pistol squirt or similar is fine.

 

Throwing a stone IMO is cruel. If someone threw a stone at my cat because it ventured into their garden (and in fairness to cats, how are they meant to know where they can cant go) and it hurt them or even killed them, I am not a violent person but they would end up with

 

1) a hefty vets bill

2) my foot wedged firmly up their ass and a nice 4 week 'holiday' from work in the hospital.

 

I despise animal cruelty to the highest degree. People maiming and killing each other is one thing. Both parties have forms of communication which could resolve it but this is not something an animal has. An animal cannot apologise, say stop or put their point of view across.

 

I plead you to stick to the water and leave the stones and rocks where they belong. On the floor.

 

Our old cat had to go to the vets and nearly died as it had been shot with an air rifle, I expect, by some c*nt who didnt want it in its back garden.

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I would never shoot a cat with an air rifle, that is sick! The poor cat could be in pain for weeks with a slug lodged in its skull.

 

I can recommend a way to stop cats pooing on your garden, human poo is the best deterant by a mile. Spread a bit here and there especially in the hot spots and the cats will walk on by.

Human poo needs to be replaced on a regular cycle as when it goes dry it doesn't tene to work as well.

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Many aspects of gardening bore the crap out of me - weeding etc - but I can find the end results pleasing. I suppose I'm up for gardening if it's relatively quick and the results are visible. So I don't mind mowing on a nice day, cutting down trees etc (worked as a tree surgeon for a while..) but I don't get much out of waiting to see things bloom the next year and so on. I would care about my garden - they're good spaces - but I'd choose plants that looked good with little or no maintenance required.

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In 2005 spent alot of money creating what I thought would be a garden requiring minimal maintenance, no such thing imo, don't mind cutting the lawn but dislike greatly sweeping leaves off the patio's & decking, got one of those blower/sucker things but take an age so reverted back to the manual sweep, put load of bark up both sides of raised flower beds(which she is only allowed to put flowers in pots) due to said leaves does not look as it should, left with no choice but to cut down the 2 trees that are creating all this work for me

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In 2005 spent alot of money creating what I thought would be a garden requiring minimal maintenance, no such thing imo, don't mind cutting the lawn but dislike greatly sweeping leaves off the patio's & decking, got one of those blower/sucker things but take an age so reverted back to the manual sweep, put load of bark up both sides of raised flower beds(which she is only allowed to put flowers in pots) due to said leaves does not look as it should, left with no choice but to cut down the 2 trees that are creating all this work for me

 

Have you checked there's not a Tree Preservation Order on them?

 

Shame to cut down trees IMO.

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Who said they're common? ;)

 

And it's "can't" not "cant"

 

I must defend my friend here :)

 

'Cant' is an example of an argot or cryptolect, a characteristic or secret language used only by members of a group, often used to conceal the meaning from those outside the group.

 

I_N_S and I are members of this secret group. HTH

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