Hello Green Novice2, I searched for your query and so i found that if you opt for artificial grass it will become much more easier for you. As this type of grass is totally maintenance free, weather supportive and foremost important is cost effective. It looks so beautiful because it will remain green forever. I found one service provider who not even install it but also helps in landscaping your garden, just look at it once: http://www.nordicsurface.se/sv/konstgras/tradgard
Very kind of you Rick Nihilani to go to so much trouble to help Green Novice - it's a shame that the link you posted is for a Swedish company - not really practical for a UK garden.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
How do you remove moss from shingle? I only have c2hrs twice a week at Mum's garden (four hours round trip, village busses), and that chore is so time consuming and tedious, I've tended only to do it if I've had ten minutes at the end of everything else, and now it's pretty obvious and annoying. I tried Resolva (I think that's what it was called) and it didn't do much other than turn the moss beige, it was still clinging to the shingles. Mum gave away Dad's brand new pressure washer (and once-used electric hedge trimmer) a few days after he died, don't get me started. (Just about every time I go ito the shed, something else has gone.)
OK, I'll try raking it. Thanks. The shingle is in sun (as much as we get) most of the time at the back of the house S-W aspect) not so much at the front, but there's quite a heavy rainfall at Mum's (more here).
I was advised to keep hoeing because of the moss, algae and liverwort on the soil, but it just seemed to spread if from the corners and edges all over. The soil has taken on a green tinge, and putting mulch on it just gives green tinged mulch. I think Dad was hoeing every single day.
I think a hoggin path looks attractive and seems low maintenance and low cost. I'm thinking of having one but just a bit concerned it will become the local moggy toilet
Ouch, I'll have a look. The water doesn't seem to lie in the shingle areas, but I'll have a better look next time it's been raining before I go. That would definitely be a long job and quite difficult on my own (on the other hand, so will painting the shed be, just got to get on with it). Hope for some dry weather after all the pruning, tulip planting (I went a bit OTT ordering bulbs) and 'putting the garden to bed'.
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Hello Green Novice2, I searched for your query and so i found that if you opt for artificial grass it will become much more easier for you. As this type of grass is totally maintenance free, weather supportive and foremost important is cost effective. It looks so beautiful because it will remain green forever. I found one service provider who not even install it but also helps in landscaping your garden, just look at it once: http://www.nordicsurface.se/sv/konstgras/tradgard
Very kind of you Rick Nihilani to go to so much trouble to help Green Novice - it's a shame that the link you posted is for a Swedish company - not really practical for a UK garden.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
How do you remove moss from shingle? I only have c2hrs twice a week at Mum's garden (four hours round trip, village busses), and that chore is so time consuming and tedious, I've tended only to do it if I've had ten minutes at the end of everything else, and now it's pretty obvious and annoying. I tried Resolva (I think that's what it was called) and it didn't do much other than turn the moss beige, it was still clinging to the shingles. Mum gave away Dad's brand new pressure washer (and once-used electric hedge trimmer) a few days after he died, don't get me started. (Just about every time I go ito the shed, something else has gone.)
I was just going to say - rake it over every week
Great minds Tetley
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
OK, I'll try raking it. Thanks. The shingle is in sun (as much as we get) most of the time at the back of the house S-W aspect) not so much at the front, but there's quite a heavy rainfall at Mum's (more here).
I was advised to keep hoeing because of the moss, algae and liverwort on the soil, but it just seemed to spread if from the corners and edges all over. The soil has taken on a green tinge, and putting mulch on it just gives green tinged mulch. I think Dad was hoeing every single day.
I think a hoggin path looks attractive and seems low maintenance and low cost. I'm thinking of having one but just a bit concerned it will become the local moggy toilet
Ouch, I'll have a look. The water doesn't seem to lie in the shingle areas, but I'll have a better look next time it's been raining before I go. That would definitely be a long job and quite difficult on my own (on the other hand, so will painting the shed be, just got to get on with it). Hope for some dry weather after all the pruning, tulip planting (I went a bit OTT ordering bulbs) and 'putting the garden to bed'.