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Post by skarloey on Oct 16, 2007 8:44:13 GMT
If there was ONE thing that you would like to do in your garden, what would it be?
It would have to be feasible, NOT a massive task (ie no builders are allowed to come in and it can only take you and yours a maximum of two days to do it) and something that you've been meaning to do for a while.
It would be great if as many of you as possible could answer this. Go on.... humour me. ;D
To start, here's mine:
I really, really need to get my greenhouse up.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2007 8:47:09 GMT
Sort out my lawn! It's more clover than grass, with bald patches and weeds everywhere  . I just can't find the time (or, to be honest, the inclination! ;D) |
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Post by Weeterrier on Oct 16, 2007 9:41:43 GMT
Get my bulbs planted  |
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Post by Plocket on Oct 16, 2007 10:36:47 GMT
I would like the garden levelled!!!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2007 11:18:38 GMT
When we moved in the garden was full of rubble, and OH buried all the rubble in a 'mini landfill' in the corner. This is a particularly dark and dank corner, made more so by the fact that the wall is blacked from some long-ago fire. Now that the rest of the garden is looking OKish, I'd really like to dig out all the rubble and plant something like golden hops, yellow-leaved jasmine etc. there to brighten it up - but it would take a couple of days of concerted work, and we'd probably have to get a skip for all the rubble ... but that's the one thing I would (and should) do ... cheers ...
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Post by Chuckles on Oct 16, 2007 12:17:45 GMT
The one thing I really need to do is move the raised pond from the middle of the garden to one of the corners, it needs doing to open up the middle area a bit. It shades part of the lawn and the side border and I'd like to see more of that side of the garden.
Probably take more than a couple of days though, unless I crack the whip bit ;D
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Post by Jonah on Oct 16, 2007 12:25:54 GMT
I guess for me it would have to be to get the paving/ patio done in the back garden. Not only have time and the weather been against us this year, but some b*g*&rs decided to nick our cement mixer out of the garage!   There's plenty more I would love to do, but the garden just doesn't look ready for the finishing touches until that is done. |
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Post by Pip on Oct 16, 2007 12:48:56 GMT
Have at least one area without weeds.
Pip
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Post by beejay on Oct 16, 2007 15:20:18 GMT
Look after it  |
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Post by andy on Oct 16, 2007 16:26:54 GMT
Rebuild my steps down into the garden  |
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Post by beanie on Oct 16, 2007 16:32:55 GMT
I'd like to get rid of the last piece of remaining lawn. I find mowing a thankless task. i could replace it with coloured slate
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2007 18:21:04 GMT
Hmmmm......need to think about his one There is abit outside my patio doors I'd like to change (it's in shade and abit of a dumping ground at the moment) And I suppose I should clean the patio at some point ;D |
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Post by Barbara on Oct 16, 2007 18:23:01 GMT
dig out the postcard size lawn at the front,
but i use it to stand on to get to my plants.
its quite a high bed on top of a rockery wall,
so i dont know what to put in its place.
it cant look tooo modern as this is a falling down house ;D
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Post by Ladygardener on Oct 16, 2007 18:51:48 GMT
If I could do one thing it would be to remember to mark out the Iris bulbs and daff bulbs etc that I want to move. I always forget or can't be bothered and yet again they grow in places which are not great for them.
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Post by Spruance on Oct 16, 2007 18:56:15 GMT
Get an electrical supply installed in at least one of my two greenhouses. Ideally the one nearest the house. Having just replaced an overgrown bed near the house with an extension to the lawn, it rather shows up the rest of the lawn for what it is. A weedy mess!  That would take more than two days to sort out though so I think I can safely discard that idea. (Phew! ;D ) |
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Post by Tig on Oct 16, 2007 19:39:37 GMT
Remove one side of the lawn that is by a raised bed and put in a gravel path - then I could get to weed the bed when the grass is wet without making a mess and getting muddy!
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Post by Ruthie on Oct 16, 2007 20:04:21 GMT
ONE thing??? Well I guess the thing I really ought to do but never get round to it is to give my G/H a GOOD clean out and remove the bubble polythene which has been up for a few years now and, to my shame, is full of dead moths, flies and stuff. Still it's getting towards winter now so there's no point removing the insulation is there? Next Spring perhaps.....
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Post by jean on Oct 16, 2007 20:47:18 GMT
2 days and OH helping Well the concrete path down the middle would have to go, I have to keep working around it, but what to lay instead I don't know...... WB do you need a working holiday ? |
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Post by Essexgirl on Oct 17, 2007 11:04:43 GMT
Extend it so I can have a vegetlble patch to save going to the alotment.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2007 16:23:37 GMT
I would love to have a self watering system in my garden for when I am away. It would need to do my pots as well as the small borders I have. I would then have peace of mind and not have to rely on neighbours so much, not always reliable  |
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Post by 4pygmies on Oct 19, 2007 6:31:05 GMT
I want to actually get the path in the flower garden bit DONE. I am making it out of reclaimed bits and pieces so it's slow going.........I have two stretches done but as I'm completely redigging and replanting the whole area over the next few months, getting the path finished would make life much easier......the garden is about 25 feet square with a path dissecting each quarter (like the union jack flag cross - am I making sense?). I've tried weed suppressing fabric and bark (weeds just went underneath and carried on the other side), I've tried a mown grass path ( same thing). A proper path I can work from is the next attempt at keeping it looking better.......
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Post by skarloey on Oct 20, 2007 16:01:09 GMT
Thanks for replying everyone......
Right...... your challenges are to get your 'one thing' done by Christmas!!!
Please let me know if you manage it. ;D
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Post by Chuckles on Oct 20, 2007 16:11:35 GMT
Right...... your challenges are to get your 'one thing' done by Christmas!!! Please let me know if you manage it. ;D  I bet you have been doing your GH this weekend, haven't you, come on confess, spill the beans ;D |
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Post by Ladygardener on Oct 20, 2007 18:57:07 GMT
this thread has really gotten me thinking about ALL the things I need or would like to do in the garden. moved the bulbs, moved and most likely killed by buddlea black night and gave my bottom border a right going over.have pulled up the very last of my sweet peas, exhausted but happy tonight.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2007 13:01:33 GMT
buy and put up a large shed. i am fed up of looking at the bikes and not having room to put away my table and chairs all winter. they have to live outside covered with a waterproof cover.the problem is all the cats in the neighbourhoos think its a fab thing to pee on.in the spring when i have to remove it it absolutely stinks and i have to give it a massive scrub down!!!!! i want to neatly put it all away in the shed.!!!! maybe i will ask for one for christmas.!!! in my dreams!!!! xxxx |
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Post by Biggles on Oct 21, 2007 18:22:32 GMT
I wanted a shed just to store gardening tools etc. and to use it for a 'potting shed'. I managed to get one eventually but after a few months--it gradually filled up with unwanted items from the house--Black bags filled for the Charity Shop--Cardboard boxes with Goodness knows what in them until there was no room for Potting on seedlings and what it was originally intended for--
Oh Well thats Life!!
I've moved now--No shed--No decent sized garden-I just cant win!! (Moan Over --this should be on the Whinge Thread)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2007 21:05:32 GMT
Right...... your challenges are to get your 'one thing' done by Christmas!!! You're 'avin a larf my friend - I've got the hacked about border to try and sort out first!! (Have smothered it with compost tho!!!) And today I decided a Willow Tree has to go , wrong tree, wrong place and all that. Need a bloke with a big saw  |
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Post by snowowl on Oct 22, 2007 10:20:34 GMT
Dig up my lawn level it and put better drainage in then returf. Sorry Skarloey it wont be done before christmas. |
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Post by skarloey on Oct 23, 2007 20:35:41 GMT
Unfortunately not Chuckles old chum, in fact, I STILL don't know when we'll get the time to put it up!!!! Right...... your challenges are to get your 'one thing' done by Christmas!!! You're 'avin a larf my friend - I've got the hacked about border to try and sort out first!! (Have smothered it with compost tho!!!) And today I decided a Willow Tree has to go , wrong tree, wrong place and all that. Need a bloke with a big saw WB......... CALLING WB!!!!! GH needs a bloke with a big chopper!!!! ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2007 21:20:28 GMT
Has WB got a big chopper Now where's that party frock ;D |
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. I just can't find the time (or, to be honest, the inclination! ;D)
That would take more than two days to sort out though so I think I can safely discard that idea. (Phew! ;D )
