If you want a job doing right first time, do it yourself . It's quicker than getting OH to fix it after they've done it wrong. I have learned (the hard way!) to only ask OH to help if I need the extra muscle or another pair of hands, and not to leave him to get on with it on his own. Because he will either not think it through before diving in, or if he does get it right he'll trample plants in the process. Sufficient to say, he is not a gardener and has no interest whatsoever in plants.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Well, I have had to explain the difference between types of Hozelock fittings for hose pipes and water butts, including checking that the one on the end has STOP written n it.
Re water butt fitting don't assume your husband will get it right even though he spent his working life as a plumber. He has moved the outlet twice and it's still not right!Â
... don't assume that your bags of mulch won't contain loads of couch grass bits and then throw it all over garden beds that contained no couch grass prior that moment.
Oh that would be bliss, a garden with no couch grass.  I feel for you @Fire because couch grass is like a shattered windscreen - you'll be picking bits out for ever Â
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."Â Sir Terry Pratchett
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