My garden has now been taken over with brambles, bindweed and japanese knotweed and i have enough of seeing slowly being devoured with none of teh plants ive grown for years gone. As its coming from three sides - neighbours and an allotment i feel like im on a losing battle.
so i got a few garden guys out - but i find it all confusing - im having decking to one section with the rest concreted. they have all mentioned the weed membrane - but some say they will still come through eventually and others say not. on the concrete part i know they will have to clear the site a bit but what is the norm for the thickness of concrete - is there a particular cm that it should be - right at the end of the garden i will have a shed also. i just want to make sure they are all telling me teh correct thing even if they are saying different cms as i dont want to find in a years time that the concrete was too thin and the weeds get through - one did mention some kind of pvc thing but im not sure if he is talking about the membrane or something else which might be thicker. i know that it might not completely eradicate all the weeds and i suspect they might come at the sides of my fence which will be easier for me to measure. Also another suggested having it returfed over the pve or membrane - but i just thought that eventually the new turf will only be what ive got now. i just want a garden that is relatively low maintenance as ive decided that planters might be the way to go for me now.
so i got a few garden guys out - but i find it all confusing - im having decking to one section with the rest concreted. they have all mentioned the weed membrane - but some say they will still come through eventually and others say not. on the concrete part i know they will have to clear the site a bit but what is the norm for the thickness of concrete - is there a particular cm that it should be - right at the end of the garden i will have a shed also. i just want to make sure they are all telling me teh correct thing even if they are saying different cms as i dont want to find in a years time that the concrete was too thin and the weeds get through - one did mention some kind of pvc thing but im not sure if he is talking about the membrane or something else which might be thicker. i know that it might not completely eradicate all the weeds and i suspect they might come at the sides of my fence which will be easier for me to measure. Also another suggested having it returfed over the pve or membrane - but i just thought that eventually the new turf will only be what ive got now. i just want a garden that is relatively low maintenance as ive decided that planters might be the way to go for me now.