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    Originally posted by Bardsey
    Go on then, rub it in mate! Very overcast with a fair bit of rain on and off up here in deepest darkest Yorkshire!
    Don't worry It comes to the best of us - did you see the london marathon - absolutely pi**ed it down.

    Ok I know you have been trying to ignore my gardening! tips but on a serious note (god forbid) there was a home and garden programme on telly this morning (sunday) that featured a garden in Ripon, where this bloke transformed a scraggy old front garden into a very nice feature with topiary whatsits and raised beds with roses and a smart path. (mind you it looked blooming expensive and seem to put certan peoples £18 lillies to shame)

    see low maintenance and beautiful, with just a hint of concrete and bricks

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    Originally posted by thewacko
    see low maintenance and beautiful, with just a hint of concrete and bricks
    At least you don't get left with scraggy old hands from digging and clipping all day Saturday - apologies to anyone who had to put up with my rough hands at Hammersmith

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    Originally posted by Pammy
    At least you don't get left with scraggy old hands from digging and clipping all day Saturday - apologies to anyone who had to put up with my rough hands at Hammersmith
    Pammie, you need to invest in some Marigolds, of the rubber variety!

    Bardsey, you got me back! It poured and poured all day yesterday! I was going to 'weed and feed' the lawn on Saturday but I was kna..tired by the end of the day, now I'm kicking my self as, you have to do it when it's dry but rain is expected within 48hours, Saturday would have been perfect

    The saying 'never put off today, what you could do tomorrow' annoying springs to mind!
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    Originally posted by Lory
    you have to do it when it's dry but rain is expected within 48hours, Saturday would have been perfect
    I tried one of those last year, but my lawn stayed brownish for quite a while. This year, I dug all the dandylions out by hand - about 50 of them

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    Originally posted by Pammy
    I tried one of those last year, but my lawn stayed brownish for quite a while. This year, I dug all the dandylions out by hand - about 50 of them
    You're such a Trojan, I'm well impressed !

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    Originally posted by Pammy
    I tried one of those last year, but my lawn stayed brownish for quite a while. This year, I dug all the dandylions out by hand - about 50 of them

    I know, the moss turns black and you have to rake it out
    As for digging Dandelions out by hand!
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    Originally posted by Pammy
    I tried one of those last year, but my lawn stayed brownish for quite a while. This year, I dug all the dandylions out by hand - about 50 of them
    I prefer to see a bunch of roses or marigolds on my table, but each to their own.


    hee hee back to the silly mode again

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    Originally posted by thewacko
    I prefer to see a bunch of roses or marigolds on my table, but each to their own.
    I thought you'd have gone for a brick and a cup of sand ?


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    Originally posted by Pammy
    I thought you'd have gone for a brick and a cup of sand ?

    Dont be silly, they are on the mantle peice, not on the table - you women have no idea

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    Originally posted by Lory
    Opps the pics didnt work!

    Ok Lory, when do you fancy a trip to Buckinghamshire? your garden is fantastic!!, i have a field of a garden, and really dont have green fingers, sister says i should use it for boot sales and make some money, somehow i dont think the neighbours would approve.

    How do you put pics on this site?

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    Originally posted by Boomer
    Cacti. Low maintenence, unusual spikey but starngely appealing...anyone else resemble their favourite plant?

    I tend to have plenty of the nettle range, stinging i think, oh and lots of brambles great for those blackberry pies

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    Originally posted by dee
    I tend to have plenty of the nettle range, stinging i think, oh and lots of brambles great for those blackberry pies
    a perfect garden to concrete up

    yipee

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    The perfect lawn needs weeding feeding cutting about the same number of times you go dancing a week

    It’s a tough life

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    Originally posted by philsmove
    The perfect lawn needs weeding feeding cutting about the same number of times you go dancing a week

    It’s a tough life
    I am glad I do not currently have a lawn, else I would be cutting, weeding.feeding it about 4-5 times a week!

    so I stand by my previous statement - a perfect garden to concrete up


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    Originally posted by thewacko
    so I stand by my previous statement - a perfect garden to concrete up
    Bet you have one of those BBQs built from a couple of breeze blocks - right?

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    Originally posted by Pammy
    Bet you have one of those BBQs built from a couple of breeze blocks - right?
    B&Q do these great barbecues that when you have finished you throw them away - no cleaning up afterwards

    hey hey

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    Originally posted by thewacko
    B&Q do these great barbecues that when you have finished you throw them away - no cleaning up afterwards
    Throw away? Nah, just concrete over them

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    Originally posted by Pammy
    Throw away? Nah, just concrete over them
    DO YOU MIND

    some of us are trying to have a serious gardening discussion here

    besides disposable barbecues make terrible paving slabs, as they keep giving way underfoot . . .

    Now the burgers that I cook on a barbecue would make perfect paving slabs

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    Wacko: Wait a minute, you'd better watch your back in your garden. Sounds a dangerous place. Sort of place you lay down to catch the rays and before you know it, someone's concreted over you as well...

    Those burgers sound like economy ones to me - nothing worse than a 40% offle, 50% water, 5% salt & sugar and of course 5% concrete in a burger...

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    Originally posted by Pammy
    Wacko: Wait a minute, you'd better watch your back in your garden. Sounds a dangerous place. Sort of place you lay down to catch the rays and before you know it, someone's concreted over you as well...

    Those burgers sound like economy ones to me - nothing worse than a 40% offle, 50% water, 5% salt & sugar and of course 5% concrete in a burger...


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