Garden question

RAS

Consider finding some chicken mesh and nailing that to the planks to make the surface rougher. Like rangers do on footbridges?

Gers

Have bought a bag of bark chips and will put thst down when we get back home on Friday. It was a great suggestion, so thanks.

Davesnave

Gers wrote: »

Have bought a bag of bark chips and will put thst down when we get back home on Friday. It was a great suggestion, so thanks.

Having paid out £120 this year for patio door glass, I know what a pain stone chips can be! :rotfl:

Gers

Hopefully only a temporary solution as the lawn will be lifted next year and sorted out properly.

No patio or patio glass so it may be that gravel is the permanent answer, especially as rain is ever present on the west coast. The steading will have storage shelving installed (as well as the wood store bit) and a small chest freezer) so access has to be mud free.

Off home in about an hour so I'll take before and after pics.

Thanks again.

Gers

Have done it and it's worked perfectly.


Unfortunately what's not working is my BT landline so I have no broadband to post up pics. Remote area so phone just on GPRS and slower than a slow tortoise. Three working days for BT repair so that's Wednesday!

At least no more muddy feet, thanks again.

😄

Gers

Well Wednesday came and went without a repair. Phone line was eventually repair on Tuesday 06 January, as was broadband. On Wednesday 07 January a lightning strike fried the router. So here I am with my third router in a month.

So, no pics yet. Bark is now also very soggy but as we've had almost continual rain, including four days of horrendous Storm conditions this week, it's not surprising. Still, it's done its job and helped keep a relatively mud free passage to the wood storage.

I've taken to sprinkling a more than usual amount of bird feed on the ground lately. Whilst it's been entertaining watching the birds trying to land on and stay on the feeders a lot of them are flown off onto the ground or struggle to stop themselves being swept backwards. Now it seems that the larger birds, chaffinches and sparrows, are taking to ground feeding and the multiple tits and goldfinches have a clear run on the feeders. Fewer fights too.

Put out currants and unwanted grapes and they get eaten too. Will spend a bit of time today smashing some peanuts up to scatter too.

Roll on spring!

Gers

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At long last I have had the time, the phone line/broadband connection and electricity all together.

This is the very short bark chip pathway from the back door to the outbuilding. Putting down the chips was the perfect answer to a very soggy problem.

Thanks

Gers

Well the bark chips were good as a stop-gap although there they did make a mess of the back hall.

I've got someone to lay slabs of slate which were lying about the place between the back door and the barn. He's made a start today,

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There's some writing on the slabs but that matters not. As they were just unused they've been put to a great use.

Gers

Now it's finished! So happy - no more muddy feet this winter.

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