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If you're planting this time of year then the plants will be actively growing, so you cannot use bare root or transplanted material. Anything in pots will be OK, as long as they haven't been in the pots so long so that you have such a tightly compressed rootball that the roots will never grow...

Depends how long you're staying at your current address. As fencer35 says, cheap sheds have a very short life and are generally fit only for firewood after 5 - 7 years. £200 6x4 shed - lasts 5 years - cost per year £40 £600 6x4 shed - lasts 25 years - cost per year £24 Shiplap is where the...

Hello Dean It's rather difficult to get the whole idea, but from your pics it appears that the decking covers your entire garden? It would seem that the decking project was done by the previous owner in conjunction with the neighbours, and it also appears that it's going to be a rather...

You don't say what sort of garage this is - if its a prefab concrete panel type with roof sheets, the ivy is unlikely to really do any damage - just cut it off where it pokes through, and ask them to trim it a bit. But if your garage is of a permanent construction with a tarred and felted roof...

The problem is not the wood rotting just because it's thin, the problem will be the water run off from the roof - it will splash up and continually dampen the side of the shed in the winter. I would suggest that you give the side of the shed that will be facing the wall a good couple of coats of...

Hello Paul - yes, your calculation is right. A typical small mixer will manage about half a 25kg bag of cement at a time, plus about 12 shovels of aggregate. Just run a sharp stanley knife around your cement bag halfway up to give you the two roughly equal portions per bag. Most book advice...

Ah! - a hot tub - that makes sense - water is heavy stuff. Sounds like what you're doing is fine. Not sure about the need for a membrane, but bit late now :-( I would either remove some of your rubble or attach some extra battens on top of your existing formwork to increase the concrete...

Its a shame your pic doesn't seem to have displayed - not on my browser anyway. What is this base for, and why has it got a damp proof lining? If this is just a base for a timber shed then it seems you're using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. You could have just used council grade paving slabs...

I've been running a commercial glasshouse nursery for the last 29 years so I may have something to offer people looking for advice about glasshouses, polytunnels, materials etc.

I agree that it might be best to use short vertical posts fitted behind the sleepers to support them, but if these posts are wooden they will need to be to be substantial and soaked in preservative. You might be better off using heavyweight angle iron and concreting this into the ground about...

Easy there - think twice before choosing pyracantha - if you need a tightly clipped hedge then you'll never get any berries - (because pyracantha only flowers and berries on second year wood) - and if you leave it and prune after flowering/berrying you'll have long pieces of extremely thorny...

Hello folks I've been searching online for a while and cannot find much information on how to go about getting a gas pressure regulator for a domestic property (the type that usually sits under a green fibreglass box somewhere in peoples front gardens) moved. I want to create a new access...