I have a small garden at the front of my house,
and want to landscape it so in is vertually maintainance free.
Any ideas on the best way to do this, any suggestion will be
much obliged.

thanks
Patrick

DARLO2005@AOL.COM wrote:

> I have a small garden at the front of my house,
> and want to landscape it so in is vertually maintainance free.


Landscape fabric & gravel.  Cheap & works a treat.

Dave

"david lang"  wrote in message 
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> DARLO2005@AOL.COM wrote:
>> I have a small garden at the front of my house,
>> and want to landscape it so in is vertually maintainance free.
>
> Landscape fabric & gravel.  Cheap & works a treat.
>


We removed the lawn, laid the black fabric sold in garden centres and then 
spread shingle.  Looks good and the only maintenance is to occasionally 
(once a year) water it with weedkiller.
-- 
Keith Willcocks
(If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth living!)

Keith Willcocks wrote:

> "david lang"  wrote in message
> news:UoXQe.61918$Il.15849@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> > DARLO2005@AOL.COM wrote:
> > > I have a small garden at the front of my house,
> > > and want to landscape it so in is vertually maintainance free.
> >
> > Landscape fabric & gravel.  Cheap & works a treat.
> >
>
> We removed the lawn, laid the black fabric sold in garden centres and
> then spread shingle.  Looks good and the only maintenance is to
> occasionally (once a year) water it with weedkiller.



We did very similar to this, but I got a bit carried away and removed
about a foot of soil, this may or may not have something to do with us
never having to water it with weedkiller.  For plants/variation of
colour we put out tubs with different plants in them these plants are
grown in the back garden, which basicaly only we can acces so it is a
tad overgrown/not as neat as we'd like.
-- 
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 hidden agendas so it should be taken at face value.  The wrong words
may be used this is due to my limitations with the English language .

yours S
Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione

soup wrote:


> 
> 
> We did very similar to this, but I got a bit carried away and removed
> about a foot of soil, this may or may not have something to do with us
> never having to water it with weedkiller.  For plants/variation of
> colour we put out tubs with different plants in them these plants are
> grown in the back garden, which basicaly only we can acces so it is a
> tad overgrown/not as neat as we'd like.


I've just seen a fabric in Homebase with copper impregnated in it to 
keep the weeds down.  Don't know if it works!

Andy

Andy Champ wrote:


> I've just seen a fabric in Homebase with copper impregnated in it to
> keep the weeds down.  Don't know if it works!


That should be good, aparently copper destroys algea on roof tiles.

Dave

I'm afraid I find the trend to concrete and chips rather sad. Is it really
so hard to look after a bit of garden ?

Even if it is just grass all you have to do is run a hover mower over it 6
times a year and chuck some weedkiller on it in the spring.

Gil

Gil wrote:

> I'm afraid I find the trend to concrete and chips rather sad. Is it
> really so hard to look after a bit of garden ?


IMO gardens are somewhere to sit drinking beer while the food on the BBQ 
cooks - not places to spend hours working in.

Dave

"Gil"  wrote in message 
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> I'm afraid I find the trend to concrete and chips rather sad. Is it really
> so hard to look after a bit of garden ?
>
> Even if it is just grass all you have to do is run a hover mower over it 6
> times a year and chuck some weedkiller on it in the spring.
>


Each to his own ;o)
-- 
Keith Willcocks
(If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth living!)