Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Covering ground by Barbara w. Ellis

Isbn-13: 978-1-58017-665-1

There is a free preview (except paages 4-35 and 39-166) here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/112662011/Covering-Ground

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

I tend to need as much assistance with that as possible!

I'd have thought that "only 300 payments to go" would have done that!

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I thought I wanted Astroturf (you have to do maintenance and hose it down, so poo could be hosed off) .... and I was passing a market stall and a man was there selling it. He said it's an awful faff as you've the cost of digging up and removing existing turf, then flattening it and preparing it for the turf to go down. It's an expensive solution ....

The problem is, if it doesn't drain away very well, the fetid water sits underneath. For example, this spring with high water tables, the smell might linger.........and because its not such a nice envirnment for things that would naturally clear the smell, it risks lingering underneath for longer.


Thereby becoming a beacon to all cats of 'cats go here, big time'


You get this to some degree on hard surfaces too. But they are easier to clean as there is no'underneath' in the same way.


I have experience horse and cow floor mats which is the promblems magnified. Yuck.

silvercar

For a low maintenance garden, I would be tempted to grass the lot and employ a local lad to mow the lawn occasionally.

Remind your OH that people do grow out of hay fever. I was borderline asthmatic from hsyfever until a couple of years ago.

vivatifosi

silvercar wrote: »

For a low maintenance garden, I would be tempted to grass the lot and employ a local lad to mow the lawn occasionally.

Remind your OH that people do grow out of hay fever. I was borderline asthmatic from hsyfever until a couple of years ago.

He's not anti grass per se, he's more anti mowing it...

I would like to have a local lad to mow the lawn, but sadly there are no local lads. The people who live round here are either retired, working professionals with no kids, or have small families. I don't think I'd be very popular if I let my neighour's 3 year old loose with a metal bladed Flymo. Therefore those who are serious about gardening round here are retired, or hire gardeners. The going rate is £25 per hour. I don't mind having a gardener come round, but I'm more of the once a month frame of mind than the once a week or fortnight. My lawn unfortunately is in a dreadful state. It wasn't laid properly to start with I think, though it looked ok when I moved in. It has a big mossy patch and lots of buttercups and dandelions and a corner of nettles.

Though I've just discovered this too, which may also be an answer:
http://www.husqvarna.com/uk/products/robotic-mowers/husqvarna-robotic-mowers-for-homeowners/
Or not as the case may be. I've just seen the price and it's more than my entire budget for the garden.

GDB2222

Doozergirl wrote: »

Goodness, GBD, have you told your friends that he nearly bumped the two off you off?!

We have broached this, but they were both absolutely fine.

GDB2222

silvercar wrote: »

For a low maintenance garden, I would be tempted to grass the lot and employ a local lad to mow the lawn occasionally.

Remind your OH that people do grow out of hay fever.

I am sure that is a better solution to the grass than AstroTurf. £5 twice a month during the growing season for half an hours work mowing should attract a local teenager. At least until the cost of robot mowers comes down.

I have had hay fever for forty years, and I haven't grown out of it yet.

Nikkster

GDB2222 wrote: »

We have broached this, but they were both absolutely fine.

They might have had a chance to build up their resistance.

Or they were talking to you from the comfort of their hospital beds...

neverdespairgirl

tomterm8 wrote: »

Well, it's up to you, mate. But I don't think suffering in silence works as well as suffering with lots of complaints. The doctors can't really do much about your suffering if they don't know about it. And they are more likely to do something about it if it will relieve their own suffering. If you see what I mean.:D

I agree - AKA "the squeaky wheel gets the grease".

GDB2222

vivatifosi wrote: »

He's not anti grass per se, he's more anti mowing it...

I would like to have a local lad to mow the lawn, but sadly there are no local lads. The people who live round here are either retired, working professionals with no kids, or have small families. I don't think I'd be very popular if I let my neighour's 3 year old loose with a metal bladed Flymo. Therefore those who are serious about gardening round here are retired, or hire gardeners. The going rate is £25 per hour. I don't mind having a gardener come round, but I'm more of the once a month frame of mind than the once a week or fortnight. My lawn unfortunately is in a dreadful state. It wasn't laid properly to start with I think, though it looked ok when I moved in. It has a big mossy patch and lots of buttercups and dandelions and a corner of nettles.

Though I've just discovered this too, which may also be an answer:
http://www.husqvarna.com/uk/products/robotic-mowers/husqvarna-robotic-mowers-for-homeowners/
Or not as the case may be. I've just seen the price and it's more than my entire budget for the garden.

Sorry, just seen this, so £5 a go won't be enough.

We have lots of buttercups at the moment, and i am leaving off the mowing so as not to disturb them. Gorgeous, aren't they? Ditto dandelions. I sowed a wild flower mix in one corner of the Lawn, but I think the birds copped the lot. Maybe you just need to start liking weeds?