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has anybody got any experience with watering systems? the perimeter of my garden has several trees and a border down 1 side that all need watering during the dry weather i can borrow hose to connect to mine to do this but was wondering if i could bury something along the fence and just have...

i know thats they are the sensible options but another reason for getting one is that its fathers day coming up the wife keeps asking "what do you want?" another is that i havent got 1 and the last reason is i like tools that make my life easy!!!

my golf clubs are a few years old and are not in the best of condition, they are suffering after spending their time living in the dampish corner of the shed, i was wondering whether any of the dremel type multi tools are would be any good to clean up and polish my clubs i thought of these as...

i need a part renewing on a mower which at the moment is 410 stainless steel 12% chrome, to replace the part the bar will cost from dealer £300+ i was hoping that i could hopefully find a mild steel equivalent to reduce costs, the bar is approx 12 foot long with 8 bearings along the length for a...

hi could you tell me how long they take to establish? and how big you would expect yours to grow in your tub, i know if i plant it in a tub it is very likely that it will not be able to reach its max size but i do want 1 that will grow as huge as i can but still be contained thats why i was...

feather edge fixed on to rails, dug roundish holes put post in hole, whack in 3/4-dust mixed with cement checking that post is upright and in line, keep going till hole is nearly full, you can add a bit of water or just let it draw moisture and set on its own when done use a bit of the turf you...

when i did my fence we used 4x4 posts 2 foot into the ground whacked in with plenty of concrete, 3.5x1.5 inch rails and then featheredge on to that, the fence runs north to south in a large exposed open space and hardly moves an inch in any winds

concrete the posts into the ground alongside the wall, nail your timbers on the wall side and nail your fence to that, at least this way anything that happens to your fence wont affect your wall, you could even put some copings on top of the wall before fencing it

its only going to be a bit of a hobby instead of going to big fisheries me and the boy can get down to the pond and catch our tea!! probably more of a fantasy than reality but im hopeful that i can pull it off within the next year or 2 cheers

see if you can put some compost or earth in them and find some sort of plant to go in them

sorry, the joists i meant, reading this now has got me thinking of which way up the 4x2 timbers are going to be for his decking, if it was 4" then i would have written what i did. if the deck was 2" high then i probably wouldn't have

most timber frame buildings dont even use 4" planks between floors and they are set at 400mm centers so i would say 4x2 would be fine as long as the spacing is kept to a short distance, just make sure that its pressure treated if its in contact with the ground

due to the pond being away from any buildings and a few hundred meters away from any source of electric i was thinking of having a few of the solar oxygenators or something similar, i dont think i'l be able to build up the incoming stream enough to make the water turbulent and self oxygenate the...

on my parents farm we have an overgrown pond which i would like to make bigger up to approx 30m X 15m at the moment the pond is probably about 10m X 10m, i would like to get the pond dug out deeper and bigger, a lot of the ground that will be dug out is boggy and overgrown with bushes and a...

i paid £70 per ton bag when i had 5 delivered the other week, when i ordered he told me that they would do 10sq meters at about 2" depth, i had the purple plum slate chippings and put it on a little bit thinner than that and it looks fine, make sure you put a good weedkilller down a few days...

has anybody got any idea how big a bamboo i could grow in half a 45 gallon drum, if its worth doing im going to dig a hole and put the half a drum into the ground to try and contain the bamboo, the variety thats taken my fancy is a bamboo viva aureocaulis ps if anybody has one of these could...

i put a fence post on to a wall which was used for a gate to close against, it was a 6 foot post 4" square and i put 4 anchor bolts through it and into the house wall, with the gate being 3foot wide and slamming against the post it did start to loosen a little bit so i took it off and bought a...

i bought a wisteria plant earlier this year and its happily growing away in a pot, i bought it with the idea of growing it on a large trellis screwed on to the back of my house, is this a bad idea? ive been told that by doing this im asking for problems with damp and an unpruned plant growing...

i've got plenty of room for it to grow, we've got a large wooden climbing frame/playhouse i made a few years ago for the kids and planted some honeysuckles to climb over it as the kids call it their tree house i thought i would try and climb something over it to give the covered in leaves...

hi ive just bought a Bamboo Vivax Aureocaulis from ebay, (hopefully it will survive and grow) was just wondering on how to plant and keep it contained. I was thinking of digging a large hole about 8foot long 3foot wide and about 3foot deep to plant it, first question is would that be large...