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Theres an art to growing grapes, and lots of science behind it, position is everything (no rude comments please) :lol: Buy a book on grape growing if your serious and want to do it successfully.

When scientist returned to Christmas Island, after nuking it, guess which insect was still alive and thriving? :(

Sound advice from the installers. As soon as you start mowing, this will encourage root growth, however don't scalp it for a extra few weeks, and water well after mowing, even if it's rained on it. If poss try to keep kids off it for a few extra weeks.

It's a U.K wide problem, thanks to warm and wet days and nights, perfect weather for slugs and snails. Buy the pellets with animal repellent impregnated in them, to give other wildlife a bad taste if they try to eat the dead slugs. A beer trap works well, if you can bring yourself around to...

If you are going to use glyphosate, spray on a dry cloudy, windless day, early in the morning best, to avoid beneficial insects. It may be possible to use a weed wiper system if dealing with just a few weeds.

Do you not get much frost in winter to kill them off? You could prune the bush hard, and plant some companion plants like Marigolds, as a sacrificial plant, next to it, then spray the newly pruned bush, And hope they give it a mis this time around. Natural control only works well in a glass...

Sounds like you left petrol in the line over winter. Try Halfords, if no luck ring around a few garden equipment service outlets, the tube is quite common.

____________________ moderator its miss, but we all make mistakes Consider yourself told, Scoby :lol: :lol:

Seems good value, but its aluminium and not cast iron, which they recon will last a few hundred years. Shop around at auctions for cast iron benches to refurbish, I got an cast iron ex-local park bench at auction, wood all rotted, but I replaced it, so well made it will out live me.

IMHO I think your asking for trouble, we now live in a nanny society, fueled by greedily lawyers. I hope you have lots of insurance cover, as no matter what you build, if little Johnny falls in cos is dad said he can walk on water! his dad will think nothing of suing you :( Remember the...

This is one case of 'it doesn't do exactly what it says on the tin' :( Never used 'Armillotox' myself, but if cleaning slabs/drive is all you want without much scrubbing, then dilute some thin cheap bleach, avoid plants and grass if possible, brush on with broom, swill of with hose pipe, swill...

There's currently massive competition for customers from decking suppliers, so shop around, but avoid J**son lot prices. I've seen decking advertised @ 79p per meter, and guess what it's total rubbish!

As andrew say's, it's best to use concrete. You can use more than one block per corner, if on a slope. The idea is to create mini piles in the ground, so the structure above won't shift in rain or heavy use.

You can use breeze blocks, instead of pads. Level the ground around where the blocks will go, ensure it's firm. If not, dig a hole and fill with hardcore etc, tramp down. Then find/borrow a long spirit level. concrete each block in turn, so each ends up level, do you get the idea! You can...

Got to agree with Thermo (not again!), you would have to put the butt in the loft to get enough pressure. Anything else and there would be no point to having underground watering, spraying each night with a hosepipe would be more efficient.

But will cost you a fortune, if your on a water meter like me :(

I know what you mean! I'll have to go through the other sections on this site, to find some of your posts to disagree with. :lol:

Did you know, there's more stars in the universe, than grains of sand on earth? Just a thought as you lay your slabs! :?

I too have made trellis to order from 'roofing batten'. Made up a small jig to space the squares out, then borrowed an nail gun to fasten them. It is allot of work, but the resulting trellis, will out live any shed bought 'matchwood quality' trellis.

I've known someone who added 3 x 3 wooden post, bolted to the side of existing conc posts, with some success.