@Fire, I would love a front garden tap. Was it difficult to install?
Difficulty level will depend on where the current water supply is. If you have a downstairs loo near the front of the house, for example, it should be quite simple.
If you are new to gardening and have friends who are not don’t ever buy plastic pots your gardening mates will have 100s and be very grateful to you for taking them away.
Thanks @Fire and @KT53. The garage is at the front of the house then a utility with water pipes so pipes could be about 20ft away from front, is that too far do you think?
Thanks @Fire and @KT53. The garage is at the front of the house then a utility with water pipes so pipes could be about 20ft away from front, is that too far do you think?
I'd have a tap put in the garage. Easy to run a hose through the garage and the tap will be better frost protected than outside. The reason to have one at the front of the house is so you don't end up either carrying watering cans through the house or running a hose over your carpets, but inside a garage is better, if you have that option.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Don’t think that, just because you spent 3 weeks last year on your hands and knees digging up Lesser Celandine, that you have managed to remove it all.
Don’t say to yourself that this year you will learn to live with it, and you will see the yellow flowers as a glorious harbinger of spring, because you know that next year you will spend 3 weeks on your hands and knees digging up Lesser Celandine.
Stop digging! You will get three weeks of your life back to do more interesting things. However, in lockdown, attacking celandine might look quite exciting.
The Buddha said: Learn to love oxalis and celandine.
I paid to go round a garden last week to see the snowdrops. I was intrigued to see that they had almost as many celandine as snowdrops. It was at that point that I (briefly) decided to learn to live with them.
Next year I will try to remember Buddha's wise words and use those 3 weeks to do something more exciting. If we are back in lockdown that will most likely be hunting the (yet to be discovered) oxalis.
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Difficulty level will depend on where the current water supply is. If you have a downstairs loo near the front of the house, for example, it should be quite simple.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Don’t think that, just because you spent 3 weeks last year on your hands and knees digging up Lesser Celandine, that you have managed to remove it all.
Don’t say to yourself that this year you will learn to live with it, and you will see the yellow flowers as a glorious harbinger of spring, because you know that next year you will spend 3 weeks on your hands and knees digging up Lesser Celandine.
Next year I will try to remember Buddha's wise words and use those 3 weeks to do something more exciting. If we are back in lockdown that will most likely be hunting the (yet to be discovered) oxalis.