YerMan that is a lot done, great you have found some where to get manure from good luck for all that shovelling tomorrow, the bulbs between fruit trees sound nice - free paving slabs that is what I am on the look out for
Garden Girl - join your local freecycle group - you will be amazed what people want to dispose of and you may be lucky and get some paving slabs. You can post 'wanted' items on freecycle too.
Thanks Forestedge I am on Gumtree and Freecycle so I have now posted a wanted item on freecycle, not sure whether to post on Gumtree as I will keep looking on and checking on the page
Done my bird watch today before it got too wet some birds I got to see so like listening to them all
Hello all , ended up diging up iris , Fushia , put these in pots and trays to reuse and soil ready for laying 9 Slabs so I can get to coal bunker and wood as we are having more real fires ? at home
Unfortunally the only free slabs where those great big heavy ones and I needed smaller one
GWRS- They are the slabs I got. Enormous concrete slabs. Soooo heavy.
Gardengirl- Another place to check is on preloved.com - that´s where I found the manure.
Filled over 120 bags of really really rotted manure and created my own ´little´ manure heap. Well and truly knackered. Will start digging it in next weekend I suppose.
YerMan great pictures nice lot of manure there to use, it is knackering shovelling that much manure in bags in van (or car like I have done) then to plot to off load - muscle work out - nice sized digging area you have done
What is the building near the allotments?
I have got a few offers of paving slabs - so thanks did not think about putting a wanted add up, went got a few today all odd ones and big heavy ones.... so two 60cm ones 2" thick and very heavy will go under shed
plus someone else offered me same heavy ones from a different location - which then should be plenty for under shed so that is great
GWRS your way is probably the easier way buying paving slabs and a lot cleaner, one bit of slab I have has got concrete on lumps to remove where bricks were on it
Gardengirl, the buildings are the back of a row of shops in Headingley. I think there´s a hairdressers, a pizza place and a lawyers/accountants. The muscles were a bit stiff today. Most of the slabs I got had some plops of concrete stuck to them. Just lay the slab flat on the ground and slide a spade in fast behind the concrete. Works a treat!
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YerMan that is a lot done, great you have found some where to get manure from good luck for all that shovelling tomorrow, the bulbs between fruit trees sound nice - free paving slabs that is what I am on the look out for
Garden Girl - join your local freecycle group - you will be amazed what people want to dispose of and you may be lucky and get some paving slabs. You can post 'wanted' items on freecycle too.
Thanks Forestedge I am on Gumtree and Freecycle so I have now posted a wanted item on freecycle, not sure whether to post on Gumtree as I will keep looking on and checking on the page
Done my bird watch today before it got too wet some birds I got to see so like listening to them all
Hi Garden Girl
We got paving slabs for the base of a shed on Freecycle, handily they were just around the corner!
Forestedge is right, people dispose of all sorts of things, which can be really useful!
Hello all , ended up diging up iris , Fushia , put these in pots and trays to reuse and soil ready for laying 9 Slabs so I can get to coal bunker and wood as we are having more real fires ? at home
Unfortunally the only free slabs where those great big heavy ones and I needed smaller one
Hope alls well
Got replies al ready for possible offers of paving slabs
GWRS all your plans sound good
Sandra100 Thanks people do throw away amazing things
GWRS- They are the slabs I got. Enormous concrete slabs. Soooo heavy.
Gardengirl- Another place to check is on preloved.com - that´s where I found the manure.
Filled over 120 bags of really really rotted manure and created my own ´little´ manure heap. Well and truly knackered. Will start digging it in next weekend I suppose.
Yerman , that's a lot of manure , if you run out of time to dig it all in , just put it on top of soil for now
Take care with those big slabs
YerMan great pictures nice lot of manure there to use, it is knackering shovelling that much manure in bags in van (or car like I have done) then to plot to off load - muscle work out - nice sized digging area you have done
What is the building near the allotments?
I have got a few offers of paving slabs - so thanks did not think about putting a wanted add up, went got a few today all odd ones and big heavy ones.... so two 60cm ones 2" thick and very heavy will go under shed
plus someone else offered me same heavy ones from a different location - which then should be plenty for under shed so that is great
GWRS your way is probably the easier way buying paving slabs and a lot cleaner, one bit of slab I have has got concrete on lumps to remove where bricks were on it
Gardengirl, the buildings are the back of a row of shops in Headingley. I think there´s a hairdressers, a pizza place and a lawyers/accountants. The muscles were a bit stiff today. Most of the slabs I got had some plops of concrete stuck to them. Just lay the slab flat on the ground and slide a spade in fast behind the concrete. Works a treat!