I may have missed something here, I'm trying to picture a garden 10ft by 10ft. Is that the size of the whole garden or a piece you want planted up, which is covered in paving?
Do you also have a patio area?.
More information is needed. Clearly the garden isn't as wide as the house and in an area 10ft by 10ft, you could create a Garden of Eden with £800.
Freecycle is a great way of giving things away that you no longer need, and getting free stuff that you do need. I've given lots of baby things away, and been gifted a pair of car ramps and some laminate flooring (just enough to do my very small hallway). Have a look first and see if anyone is asking for paving slabs in your area, that saves you from being inundated with emails, some asking really random questions, others downright rude, and some very polite ones - I always offer it to the first polite responder, and if they don't turn up, offer it to someone else. If you advertise it, advise them it is collection only.
I'm on a budget of virtually zero, I buy lots of tools from Amazon, as I do surveys to earn Amazon vouchers (you can also 'spend' a few more points to get paypal payments, which you can transfer to your bank). The GW offers are usually good, if you have the patience to pot up the very small plug plants and know that they won't show this year, but will come into their own next year.
If you are interested, you can grow fruit & veg in containers, strawberries and tomatoes in hanging baskets, salad crops in trough-type planters and herbs in pots.
Aldi is really good for gardening stuff, very cheap and quality stuff there - got a huge clock to go on my garage wall for £20, watering lance for £7, big plastic pots for £3. If you buy plants, try to get them on the day they are on special offer, they don't tend to look after them very well.
Sign up to all of the seed company emails (Thompson & Morgan, Suttons, Mr Fothergill's, Kings Seeds), they will send special offers, some too good to refuse.
Don't try to do it all at once. If you do, your garden will look lovely for a couple of months a year, and be fairly bare for the rest of the year, try to visit the GC once every couple of months, and add things you like bit by bit, that way you will have some colour all year round, and can build on it year-by-year, what you like this year you might hate in a few years time. You will also learn what NOT to plant, which can be equally important. Gardeners cultivate patience along with their plants.
Dont know what's on it tonight but Beachgrove is on at 7.30. Last week It was about plants and, for me, was as good as Gardeners World.
Hi Verdun, I was looking for something the other night on catchup and noticed Beachgrove, is it on every night? for the last 30 yrs I've enjoyed my Friday evenings with a bottle of wine,chocolate and gardeners world. If Beachgrove is on every evening I'll really enjoy my gardening night in tonight! on catchup...
Hi, Rodgy-dodge. Beachgrove isn't on every night...we should be so lucky. It's produced in Scotland and for years wasn't broadcast in England but you could watch it on Iplayer, it's broadcast twice a week, as it's repeated on a Sunday morning,
Ha ha watched it on catch up then Gardeners world Oh happy days! and thats not the wine speaking....I Love Gardening and I have to say The BBC are totally out of order taking our gardeners world off while the tennis and the proms are on...Have to wait until 19th July TUT TUT SHAME on you BBC! Why can't you reschedule it another day? hope some one from the program reads these threads.
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Thanks for the reminder Verdun, just caught it in time!
I may have missed something here, I'm trying to picture a garden 10ft by 10ft. Is that the size of the whole garden or a piece you want planted up, which is covered in paving?
Do you also have a patio area?.
More information is needed. Clearly the garden isn't as wide as the house and in an area 10ft by 10ft, you could create a Garden of Eden with £800.
try offering your paving slabs on gumtree for free and also www.freegle.co.uk for collection only.
Dee if you find decking a challenge IKEA sell it in tiles of 30cm x30cms in packs. The wooden bases are already under these
10’ x 10’ would need 12 packs at £17.50 each total = £210
That would leave £590 for fabulous ferns, bamboos, climbers etc, posh pots, lanterns and bistro
A pottedgarden means you can chase the sun and shade as the seasons change.
Freecycle is a great way of giving things away that you no longer need, and getting free stuff that you do need. I've given lots of baby things away, and been gifted a pair of car ramps and some laminate flooring (just enough to do my very small hallway). Have a look first and see if anyone is asking for paving slabs in your area, that saves you from being inundated with emails, some asking really random questions, others downright rude, and some very polite ones - I always offer it to the first polite responder, and if they don't turn up, offer it to someone else. If you advertise it, advise them it is collection only.
I'm on a budget of virtually zero, I buy lots of tools from Amazon, as I do surveys to earn Amazon vouchers (you can also 'spend' a few more points to get paypal payments, which you can transfer to your bank). The GW offers are usually good, if you have the patience to pot up the very small plug plants and know that they won't show this year, but will come into their own next year.
If you are interested, you can grow fruit & veg in containers, strawberries and tomatoes in hanging baskets, salad crops in trough-type planters and herbs in pots.
Aldi is really good for gardening stuff, very cheap and quality stuff there - got a huge clock to go on my garage wall for £20, watering lance for £7, big plastic pots for £3. If you buy plants, try to get them on the day they are on special offer, they don't tend to look after them very well.
Sign up to all of the seed company emails (Thompson & Morgan, Suttons, Mr Fothergill's, Kings Seeds), they will send special offers, some too good to refuse.
Don't try to do it all at once. If you do, your garden will look lovely for a couple of months a year, and be fairly bare for the rest of the year, try to visit the GC once every couple of months, and add things you like bit by bit, that way you will have some colour all year round, and can build on it year-by-year, what you like this year you might hate in a few years time. You will also learn what NOT to plant, which can be equally important. Gardeners cultivate patience along with their plants.
Hi Verdun, I was looking for something the other night on catchup and noticed Beachgrove, is it on every night? for the last 30 yrs I've enjoyed my Friday evenings with a bottle of wine,chocolate and gardeners world. If Beachgrove is on every evening I'll really enjoy my gardening night in tonight! on catchup...
Hi, Rodgy-dodge. Beachgrove isn't on every night...we should be so lucky
. It's produced in Scotland and for years wasn't broadcast in England but you could watch it on Iplayer, it's broadcast twice a week, as it's repeated on a Sunday morning,
Ha ha watched it on catch up then Gardeners world
Oh happy days! and thats not the wine speaking....I Love Gardening and I have to say The BBC are totally out of order taking our gardeners world off while the tennis and the proms are on...Have to wait until 19th July TUT TUT SHAME on you BBC! Why can't you reschedule it another day? hope some one from the program reads these threads.
I know this may be way off your budget another posted on my FB page I thinkits super
Garden design for a small back yard