Do you have a front garden?

nikki_mckay

Wish I did have a front garden but, in common with most Londoners, it's been turned into off-street parking. Which makes the road hotter in summer and a lot noisier - no soft landscaping to soak up the sounds. You can hear private conversations half-way down the street at night-time which makes getting to sleep really difficult. Would love some advice from the RHS on semi-permeable driveways or how to keep the parking space but more environmentally friendly.

nikki_mckay

Suki1964 - have you had a look at hot composting for your grass cuttings? Hot compost bin has been featured in The Guardian and reckons to compost really quickly with no turning. Expensive but - if you're like me and get the use out of your purchases for years - might be worth a look. I haven't tried it myself yet but I only have a tiny garden and very slow-growing and fine grass on it.

Gloomendoom

No

We stick our grass cuttings in our recycling bin.

bugslet

Yes

pollypenny wrote: »

Yes and a huge side garden, as we are on a corner plot.

Snap, it's a fairly small front garden though, less than 10 feet, but at least it's got shrubs in it. Am planning to dig some up and move to the side and put more ferns/grasses in the front, it's quite shaded there.

Gloomendoom wrote: »

We stick our grass cuttings in our recycling bin.

Trauma in our town, the council are stopping collecting green bins next month - you'd think it was the end of the world!

Consumerist

No front garden for us. We used to have a tiny plot of grass (20' x 10') but put in another driveway (if you can call it that) for off-road parking.

Unlike our neighbours, however, we do have a well-managed back garden which has not been paved over. Lovely in the summer.

toadhall

Yes

Half is block paved for parking for the 3 cars and the other half is grass, native hedging on the front and down the side.

suki1964

Yes

Gloomendoom wrote: »

We stick our grass cuttings in our recycling bin.

We don't get green waste recycling this far out of town

nikki_mckay wrote: »

Suki1964 - have you had a look at hot composting for your grass cuttings? Hot compost bin has been featured in The Guardian and reckons to compost really quickly with no turning. Expensive but - if you're like me and get the use out of your purchases for years - might be worth a look. I haven't tried it myself yet but I only have a tiny garden and very slow-growing and fine grass on it.

I shall look out for that. We do have compost bins but produce so much grass cuttings we don't put it in as it just slows everything down

LesD

Yes

Hmmm....looks like RHS must have been using the General Election pollsters! 25% paved over they say.....13% MSE says!

happyinflorida

Yes

We live in a cul-de-sac with only 3 houses. Ours is the middle house. We're on a hill and our drive way is also quite steep. We thought we'd turn our front garden into a parking area so we could park nearer to our front door - especially essential when carrying shopping into the house and went to discuss with our neighbour to make sure they were ok with us doing it when he told us that our plot wasn't a rectangle in front of our house and our bit of lawn was only a triangle! Our lawn is all one with next door so there's no obvious divide. We'd forgotten this from the title deeds as you only see them briefly when you go to sign on the dotted line. Good thing we asked our neighbour first really!! lol

Gloomendoom

No

suki1964 wrote: »

We don't get green waste recycling this far out of town

How far out of town do you live?