Friday, November 20th, 2009 at 8:32 pm by Nigel
Do you want to be in the Guinness Book of World Records? Do you want to help improve the planet? Can you plant a tree somewhere? Then it must be Tree O’Clock!
To support and promote national tree week support a world record attempt to plant the most trees in one hour. You can find out all about it here on the BBC website.
We are going to pledge to plant one tree during the designated time slot, can you also support it? If you want some help in choosing the right tree for your garden drop us a comment and we’ll try and help you. (Or at least we have some great books to help us help you!)
Tags: BBC Breathing Places, Garden Design and Improvements, Tree O'Clock, Trees
Posted in: Garden Improvements, Living the Country Life, Trees |
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009 at 11:16 am by Tammy
Followers of the Waterloo Farm Blog will know that we have spent considerable effort remodelling the house to create a space which will one day be a ‘family room’ incorporating a kitchen, dining area and lounge. At the moment all that exists in the kitchen area are some pipes coming up through the concrete floor and various electrical cables coming down from the ceiling in preparation for what will one day be our new kitchen. Hopefully that day is not too far away as we have decided to start contacting some kitchen companies to talk about designs, costs, installations etc. One of the companies we contacted was Moben Kitchens, but I really wish we hadn’t bothered … Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Customer Service, Kitchen Design, Moben Kitchens
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Friday, November 6th, 2009 at 10:05 pm by Nigel
Planting Daffodil Bulbs
Tammy’s method for planting ‘lots of’ Daffodil bulbs:
- Get Husband to dig a big trench 3 times the depth of the bulbs
- Line bottom with sharp sand (helps with the drainage as daffodils don’t like wet roots)
- Gently sink bulbs into sand
- Rake back soil and gently firm
- Wait for Spring!
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Tags: Daffodil Bulbs, Flower Beds, Garden Improvements, Planting Bulbs
Posted in: Bulbs, Garden Improvements, Living the Country Life, Posts with Photos |
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 at 10:36 pm by Nigel
Ditch Levelling
Well the last part of the weekend in August that we spent transforming the drive, and to some degree the garden, was spent levelling in the ditch. It is not clear from the pics, but there was a drop of over two feet from the level of the garden, and it is in this space that we plan to put our fruit cage, vegetable plot and chicken run. So this has all been on hold until we could level this off.
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Tags: Chicken run, Ditches, Fruit cage, Garden Design and Improvements, GSD Lambert and Sons, Lambert Civil Engineering, Liam Lambert, Vegetable plot
Posted in: Fruit, Garden Improvements, Kitchen Garden, Living the Country Life, Posts with Photos, Vegetables |
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Monday, October 26th, 2009 at 10:15 pm by Nigel
5 Circle Covered and Bed Digging
Since the first time we saw Waterloo Farm there was no real distinction between the front and back of the house. This was largely due to a large shingled turning circle/parking area that is in the ‘back garden’. This has left the house a little bereft of identity and also privacy when you are in the back garden. To remedy this our plan has always been to convert this turning area into grass/beds and secure off the front from the back.
Part 2 of the drive/garden transformation resulted in Liam raking through the compacted gravel and lifting off the top 6 inches. This was used as the hardcore and base for the two new guest parking bays covered in Garden Transformation Part 1. Once this had been cleared, we then replaced the shingle with approx. 40-50 tons of top soil, which was then graded smooth by the digger bucket.
Next we wanted to make maximum use of having the track machine on site, so we used another 10-15 tons of top soil to cover the land drain that had not re-seeded through the sand. Being cheeky we also used the digger to turn over the soil on the new beds from which we had the turf cut. This turf was then re-layed by Tammy on the old turning circle. We certainly know how to recycle!!
Next we just had the ditch to sort out….
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1 Shingle Turning Circle
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2 Shingle Removed
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3 Shingle Removed
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4 Circle Covered and Bed Digging
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5 Circle Covered and Bed Digging
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6 Circle Turfed and Seeded
Tags: Driveway, Garden Design and Improvements, GSD Lambert and Sons, Lambert Civil Engineering, Liam Lambert
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