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General => News => Topic started by: cocopops on April 05, 2009, 19:44:21

Title: Gardening by degrees.. trowl to JCB!!!
Post by: cocopops on April 05, 2009, 19:44:21: I don't have an allotment although my grandparents did. Moved to France 3 years ago to a very run down house and garden. OH is a joiner/carpenter and loves renovating so he loved the house. I said 'I love the garden', great for the children no problem.

He has worked wonders with the house but I have been fighting a loosing battle with the garden. Apart from a lawn the rest was pines, laurels, bracken and thorns.

I kept weeding and planting but it still looked as bad. We have had some really good weather for the last few weeks so my OH has borrowed first a Manatou then this weekend a JCB, from his boss. It looks so bare but at least we have a starting point.

The people who lived here before loved their privacy so much so that they had obscured glass on all the windows and hedges all the way round the boundary. Now we can see out onto the country side and have some light. Now I can start to rebuild :)
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Post by: betula on April 05, 2009, 19:50:24: A breath of fresh air :)

What a wonderful project.I envy you all that space ;D
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Post by: saddad on April 06, 2009, 08:20:08: Why do people hedge themselves in? ???
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Post by: Robert_Brenchley on April 06, 2009, 12:20:31: It can be worthwhile, depending who your neighbours are!
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Post by: cornykev on April 06, 2009, 15:12:50: It looks great Coco, and very very BIG. ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: Mr Smith on April 10, 2009, 11:55:57: Just wish I could speak French I would be over there and buying a place tomorrow, looks very nice, :)
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Post by: louise stella on April 10, 2009, 17:36:17: Oh that sounds so nice!

HAve fun designing it!

Louise
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Post by: THE MASTER on April 13, 2009, 02:23:12: Quote from: Mr Smith on April 10, 2009, 11:55:57
Just wish I could speak French I would be over there and buying a place tomorrow, looks very nice, :)
no problemo
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;D
I don' ; t ont une attribution bien que mes parents aient fait. Déplacé en France il y a 3 ans très à une course vers le bas logez et faites du jardinage. L'OH est un menuisier/charpentier et des amours rénovant ainsi il a aimé la maison. J'ai dit ' ; J'aime le garden' ; , grand pour les enfants aucun problème. Il a travaillé des merveilles avec la maison mais j'avais livré bataille de desserrage avec le jardin. Indépendamment d'une pelouse le repos était des pins, des lauriers, fougère et des épines. J'ai continué à sarcler et planter mais il regardait toujours en tant que mauvais. Nous avons eu un certain temps vraiment beau pour les dernières semaines ainsi le mon OH a emprunté d'abord un Manatou puis ce week-end un JCB, à son patron. Il regarde si nu mais au moins nous ayez un point de départ.