fjohn860
Alice in diaperland
A little closer to a completed firepit area, just in time for summer!
Benches finished sans a coat of paint.
Now onto the paving.
Burners' Backyards: Veggies, Gardening, Landscape & Design
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Benches finished sans a coat of paint.
Now onto the paving.
cokeonspecialtwodollars
Fartes of Portingale
Finally settled on a method to sort out the retaining around the pump track and made a solid start last week. The rest will need to wait until next year owing to an unrelated broken hand.
rockmoose
his flabber is totally gastered
Love me some gabion action. Classy work.
cokeonspecialtwodollars
Fartes of Portingale
I'd debated this one for ages, sleepers weren't going to follow the curves, sandstone blocks we're too expensive and necessitate machinery access which would have been difficult, Besser blocks would need a lot of footing work that I could have just poured a concrete wall with a curved form. I'd never really liked Gabion walls, the top mesh panel always just looked untidy to me so I've stopped the internal separation panels a few squares from the top and now they just get hidden by the last layer of rock. Best of all it can be easily completed by one man and a barrow and it worked out pretty cheap using the oversized Basalt.
pink poodle
気が狂っている男
I'm disappointed it isn't a pile of used car tyres as a throw back to the glory days of bmx!
cokeonspecialtwodollars
Fartes of Portingale
I know that you don't have any reason to look but have you seen the price of car tyres these days!
silentbutdeadly
has some good things to say
I'm a bit daunted by some gabion action at the moment. On a good day, I can fill four. So I've got a few days to go. I may have to wait until after summer to finish this...
cokeonspecialtwodollars
Fartes of Portingale
Looks like you're taking a lot more care stacking your rocks then I am for this particular wall.
fatboyonabike
Captain oblivious
two hands will certainly help with that!
cokeonspecialtwodollars
Fartes of Portingale
I'd give you a slow clap for that one but, you know
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pink poodle
気が狂っている男
When I built my backyard out of them, the tyre shop nearly paid me to take them...but that was nearly 10 years ago now.
Funny thing about that, and surely I'm not alone here either...I had a very shithouse backyard. Locals will know the Islington of old to some degree, well I was on fern St. It was a mix of industrial and residential going back a very long way. The soil was a fucked up mix of coal dust, spot/ash, rubble, litter, and sand. The deepest I dug down there was about 3 feet and it was still heavy with old broken up bricks and similar. It was wrapped around a cracked and fucked concrete slab with a hills hoist in the middle. Anyway I gave about zero fucks for yard maintenance the grass was waste deep for most of my ownership! Then (foolishly?) A woman moved in with me (we had been on/off/on/off for a very long time by then) and I had the house revalued which triggered a bit of a clean up. I decided to landscape the yard to some degree.
Being a bit hard up for cash at the time I decided to build up the garden bed out of car tyres...tiered up to 3 tyres high then fill them with compost (mostly coffee grounds) and potting mix. I think I've talked about this before, so hopefully not boring anyone too much yet. Ummmm...the woman involved was unable to envision where this was going and expressed the doubt fairly clearly quite often "this is stupid" and "it looks like shit" kind of talk. After about 3 months (I used to be a really good gardener) I had a the garden greened out and under control without very much work at all, just some very selective planting (mostly plants that I liked but grow like pests and some fruit trees I got for free).
where was I going with this? Ummmm...not once did I get anything like a "oh...now I see it,chat was a good idea".
not sure how this all relates.
dazz
Downhill Dazz
Please post some pics of how it looks now so we can see how great/crap it looks after 10 years.
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pink poodle
気が狂っている男
I sold that place a long while back.
dazz
Downhill Dazz
Ahh yes, now I read your post again that is apparent...
I've been thinking about doing a progress post of my own yard/shed build. Still a ways to go but achieved the milestone of permit sign off recently.
pink poodle
気が狂っている男
The last I saw of the garden was in a state of good and bad. I was asked to care for friends' 2 dogs for a few days (some sort of family emergency) just before the sale settled. The little terrors had loved running around my small yard which busted up a bunch of the plants, leaving patches of exposed tyre. The buyer hadn't noticed the tyres when inspecting...and they didn't say anything on their final inspection.
They were more concerned about the busted up old van on the driveway. There had been a lot of reminders about getting rid of that...as if I was going to leave it there! The wrecker gave me cold hard cash for it. I also stuffed a whole bunch of tyres in it that looked a little out of place.
fjohn860
Alice in diaperland
Small water feature mostly finished, just sunk and concreted in these pvc pipes as an overflow holding area (also somewhere for the frogs* to go if its fecking hot, as the pond isn't super deep.).
*I wasn't sure if I would run the pump 24/7 so put some tadpoles in to keep the mosquito larvae in check.
beeb
Dr. Beebenson, PhD HA, ST, Offset (hons)
Will frogs be able to get out of the pipes if they fall in? They can burrow in dirt, but can't climb plastic in my experience. I had to let some grasses from beside my pond dangle into the water to form a sort of "ladder for frogs" at my old house. Before the plants grew in I'd occasionally find a very knackered banjo frog in the pond of a morning and have to scoop it out and drop it off in a suitable bit of the garden it could burrow into.
fjohn860
Alice in diaperland
Valid point. I know down at the oldie's place occasionally a frog gets into an open end rhs trellis upright and manages to get out (but the inside of the rhs is probably rough so would help I guess).
Got me thinking now I might use a self tapping screw to attach a strip of shade cloth to the inside of the pipes
ozzybmx
taking a shit with my boobs out
Frogs are sticky little fckers
cammas
Seamstress
So I’ve been working on the front yard again, a little further behind schedule than planned but getting Covid for my week off work sort of screwed things up.
Anyway the fence is up, painted and wired just waiting on Mrs Cammas to decide on what post capital design she wants to go with. While I wait I’ve pulled a section of next door’s fence to straighten the end post so it doesn’t make the new fence look crooked. I’ve designed the layout of the garden beds and now need to start digging holes again for the sleeper posts, thank goodness I’m not on the rigid anymore as my shoulders and biceps are killing me.
This section ran on an angle with a drop of about 200mm hence the sleeper underneath and the end post stuck out past the new fence due to a piece being too long forcing it on an angle
Anyway the fence is up, painted and wired just waiting on Mrs Cammas to decide on what post capital design she wants to go with. While I wait I’ve pulled a section of next door’s fence to straighten the end post so it doesn’t make the new fence look crooked. I’ve designed the layout of the garden beds and now need to start digging holes again for the sleeper posts, thank goodness I’m not on the rigid anymore as my shoulders and biceps are killing me.
This section ran on an angle with a drop of about 200mm hence the sleeper underneath and the end post stuck out past the new fence due to a piece being too long forcing it on an angle