Marc Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 How do you people cope with your gardens? Whats your routine at this time of year with them? I ask as I know Dad has a great garden which is always perfect and Im trying to get my own into the same shape. But at this time of year I seem to spend more time just cutting the grass than I do anything else. Dont think you realise how fast it grows till you start trying to keep it low permanently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valkyries Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 gave up on mine lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormy Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 Don't know mine's all dead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm Angel n Auroras Mum Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 mines wrecked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goingsolo Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 paved it lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 I hate my patio area. Two square mulch pits that are the dogs "litterbox". It smells but I haven't had time or money to replace it. Wish it was all paved Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barkers23 Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 Hadn't looked at mine in over 3 years until I decided I wanted a puppy. Went from this: To this in just over a week: Still not great but safe enough I can leave her go out back unsupervised. Would live to do more but time, money and determination are lacking ha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goingsolo Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 Wow what a view. We look at nothing but houses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devildust76 Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 Monster is slowly destroying ours! And to think we're getting another!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunc Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 Loadsa water and keep cutting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elyse Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 We just planted some new grass...spent quite a lot as we basically had to replant half of our lawn. Turns out it would have been cheaper than sod, though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidjk Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 i have a petrol self propelled mower so its easy, 30 mins a week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 LOL I spent £3000 getting mine securely fenced then the dogs churned it up. Dug it up and generally wrecked it. So how do I deal with this. . . I look at it . . . sigh heavily and think "I'll start on that NEXT week !!!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormy Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 I constantly get had ago at for the grass but what actually killed most of it off was the snow more than the dogs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barkers23 Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 ive seriously considered putting the astro turf/artificial grass down. dont have to worry about cutting it then ha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val (Zebedee) Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 We half paved ours & put decking on the rest. Neither Mysh nor D are diggers but so glad we paved before Kaviq came along, he is a real digger! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuvMyKai Posted July 15, 2013 Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 Ours is ok at the moment, dad mows the grass and i water the plants er i say plants but its more like squashed plants as Kai has trampled on most of them. Thats why mum says we have to fence half of the garden off now so the end half can be Kai and the first half can have all of her plants and stuff in it. Still havent got round to doing that yet, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stranger Posted July 15, 2013 Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 Don't know mine's all dead Mine seems to be dying, It was a lush green couple weeks ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mydiamond Posted July 15, 2013 Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 my dad hired a landscaper to arrange the plants and make it look all nice and neat... He doesn't do much besides that. Other than because my family is lazy ( ), my garden really is low-maintenance. It has a different kind of grass. This one doesn't grow taller. Oh and to make my garden "husky friendly", I have a digging space for Lil' Dime right behind my frangipani tree. Anyways, this is the kind of grass in my garden: there's another variant... but it doesn't look as nice google translate says, this kind of grass is called "bulrush" in English. Not sure though. As you can see the images are stolen from Google. It's night-time here so can't take a pic of my garden but I can snap one tomorrow morning if you want. My garden is quite small. Very small actually and honestly that's the best gardening secret I know. You want your garden to remain pretty? Keep. It. Small. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormy Posted July 15, 2013 Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 Mine seems to be dying, It was a lush green couple weeks ago The sun hasn't helped as its dried it all out but my own fault for not watering it all lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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