it turns out gardening isn't a crock of crap after all

[Paul the 6th]

Well we spent 7 hours last week trimming back the wilderness of our garden, and I was swearing for about 6 & half hours, that gardening was for sad people with nothing interesting going on in their lives...

The outlaws* have just gone home having stayed since Thursday night. Me, vic & her dad spent pretty much all weekend, shaping the garden, mowing lawns, laying a freestyle patio ontop of pebbles, planting plants/bulbs, I even cut down a tree with an axe!

The little solar powered garden lamps are glowing quietly around the edge of the newly laid flower beds, the birds have just stopped singing, and me... I'm sat on the new patio with a bottle of port.

Life is good

(all credit to davepreston for the outlaws gag, I can only hope to be as funny as he is... Hang on a minute, there he is trying to set my bike alarm off!)

[chompy]

(all credit to davepreston for the outlaws gag, I can only hope to be as funny as he is... Hang on a minute, there he is trying to set my bike alarm off!)

Lol is probably true :D

[squirrel_hunter]

Which reminds me, I need to trim my bush.

[Mrs_giggles]

i was of the same thinking as you paul until i got my house with its little garden project for me. dont know bout you but gave me a real sence of acheivement when i cut hedge back so i could see over it.

[Paul the 6th]

i was of the same thinking as you paul until i got my house with its little garden project for me. dont know bout you but gave me a real sence of acheivement when i cut hedge back so i could see over it.

You wanna get dp in on the act! He'll love it! (runs and hides)

Seriously though, £60 on natural coloured Derbyshire patio flags and about 2 hours from start to finish has given me somewhere to :
A) hide from the missus
B) get drunk

Two birds, one housebrick.. Get in there :) where is the man of the moment tonight anywho?

[Baph]

Gardening is for poofters & women folks.

Try dismantling (with assorted tools as well as shotgun cartridges) 3 sheds, turning the wooden ones into woodchip, taking the metal one to the skip. Then building a pre-fab wooden shed, and custom desiging your own bike workshop.

NB, My workshop is going so that I'm within reach of the kitchen window, so women folks can still do their job without unneccesary movement & pass the brews out the window. :cool:

*runs.*

[Paul the 6th]

Gardening is for poofters & women folks.

Try dismantling (with assorted tools as well as shotgun cartridges) 3 sheds, turning the wooden ones into woodchip, taking the metal one to the skip. Then building a pre-fab wooden shed, and custom desiging your own bike workshop.

NB, My workshop is going so that I'm within reach of the kitchen window, so women folks can still do their job without unneccesary movement & pass the brews out the window. :cool:

*runs.*

You've obviously never chopped a tree down with an axe :razz: I've cycled 18km in 40mins once, I've worked several 20 hour days and even driven 1100 miles from austria to heckmondwike in 16 hours non stop... But all of those added together and multiplied by a million, still wouldn't be as knackering as chopping down a tree with an axe. I am now a fully grown man... With a delightful garden and beautiful pagonias mwahaha

[Mrs_giggles]

dave p at work(he does occasionally sit and look like he is doing something) he has gon quiet so is actually proberbly having to do something,i know its hard to imagine, runs and hides hehehe;)

[Baph]

Yes, I've chopped a couple of trees down with an axe in the past.

Never again though, chainsaws are a wonderful invention. :D

[northwind]

Gardening's boring unless you can really get stuck in, my mum and dad are trying to enlist help to completely destroy, level and landscape their garden this summer and that's a project worth getting into, but don't ask me to weed a flower bed or cut a hedge, what's the point?

[Mrs_giggles]

me too ripping up rotted decking and moving fence and getting rid of useless conservatory for new house for suzie and friend(sorry spelling is crap today?)

[Holdup]

Which reminds me, I need to trim my bush.

Careful now dont want any accidents, and dont forget the U rating :rolleyes:

[Sir Trev]

what's the point?

It's therapeutic. Nice colourful environment to sit out in in warmer months and a wildlife haven, with the right plants. Digging is also good workout and a lot cheaper than a gym membership. Plus growing your own veg saves money and satisfies (to a minor extent) the hunter/gatherer instinct.

We can't be out on our bikes all the time...

[Tara]

we completely gutted ours last year its so much better now we just need to paint the shed, fence and decking and it will be finished

[Paul the 6th]

It's therapeutic. Nice colourful environment to sit out in in warmer months and a wildlife haven, with the right plants. Digging is also good workout and a lot cheaper than a gym membership. Plus growing your own veg saves money and satisfies (to a minor extent) the hunter/gatherer instinct.

We can't be out on our bikes all the time...

forgot to mention the two robins who have visited our garden several times a day ever since we started work on it :)

growing veg - I'd prolly lose interest half way through and end up neglecting the plants but still, I love the bit at the end where you can sit and get pished on an evening :D

[punyXpress]

[quote=Paul the 6th;1885544]forgot to mention the two robins who have visited our garden several times a day ever since we started work on it :)

Poor 8u99ers are still looking for the tree where they built their nest!
You barsteward, you

[Paul the 6th]

Poor 8u99ers are still looking for the tree where they built their nest!
You barsteward, you

lol we've still got a hedge/row of conifers and 2 massive tree's at the end of the garden, the one I cut down was starting to grow into the house!

we had a hedgehog marching through the other night as well :D

[Dave20046]

You've aged well paul...I thought you were in your 20s




:razz:

[punyXpress]

Pipe & Slippers time ?
Is that what happens when you get a thou ?

[Paul the 6th]

Pipe & Slippers time ?
Is that what happens when you get a thou ?

I'm going to get a turbo'd hayabusa next, then maybe take up fishing, watercolour painting or buddism :)

[Dave20046]

:lol:

[Spiderman]

.. laying a freestyle patio ontop of pebbles.....

Just gotta ask what one of these is? is it a patio that does stoppies and endos and stuff?

And why no pics of your hard work? Did you ever see Quiff's pics of his garden where he cut SV650.org into his hedge? Its obligatory now on any gardening thread posted on the Org to have something Org related out in and pics posted, dont you know ;)

[Miss Alpinestarhero]

Where are the pictures? Show us .orgers your lovely hard work :p

It'l be pipe, slippers, fishing and grumbling about "things today" next ;)

[northwind]

It's therapeutic. Nice colourful environment to sit out in in warmer months and a wildlife haven, with the right plants. Digging is also good workout and a lot cheaper than a gym membership. Plus growing your own veg saves money and satisfies (to a minor extent) the hunter/gatherer instinct.

We can't be out on our bikes all the time...

Ah, no, I didn't mean what's the point of gardening, I like gardening... What I meant was that I can't be bothered with the maintenance, I like the creating. My grandad was the same, for about 40 years from ww2 onwards he completely rebuilt his garden about once every 3 years, but he could never be bothered to deadhead a rosebush

[Dan]

Gardening's boring unless you can really get stuck in, my mum and dad are trying to enlist help to completely destroy, level and landscape their garden this summer and that's a project worth getting into, but don't ask me to weed a flower bed or cut a hedge, what's the point?

Too right. The only gardening I've ever enjoyed was when my dad and I took my front hedge out last summer.

Was a very hot day. The hedge was about six feet tall, about 30-40 feet long. It consisted of a number (probably 10 or so) of large 'hedge-bushes' each with a main 'trunk' about 3-5 inches in diameter.

The tools we assembled were:

Ropes.

A V8 Range Rover.

A trailer (for rubbish).

A reciprocating saw.

Proper 'Man-Gardening'. It's remarkably easy to remove entire 'hedge-bushes' with a Range Rover, even when they're rooted 18 inches deep and jammed between a drain chamber and a brick wall.

[tinpants]

Too right. The only gardening I've ever enjoyed was when my dad and I took my front hedge out last summer.

Was a very hot day. The hedge was about six feet tall, about 30-40 feet long. It consisted of a number (probably 10 or so) of large 'hedge-bushes' each with a main 'trunk' about 3-5 inches in diameter.

The tools we assembled were:

Ropes.

A V8 Range Rover.

A trailer (for rubbish).

A reciprocating saw.

Proper 'Man-Gardening'. It's remarkably easy to remove entire 'hedge-bushes' with a Range Rover, even when they're rooted 18 inches deep and jammed between a drain chamber and a brick wall.

I'd probably use a chainsaw to cut the hedge out, a chipper to dispose of said hedge, and a stump grinder to take the rest out.

But then, I do it for a living, and time is of the essence. A hedge that size would probably be dealt with in about 2 hours. 3 at the most.

For the fun element though, I'd much prefer to remove the stumps the way you did!!
Incidentally, I've just been to price up a tree felling job to do in the autumn. Can't do it now 'cos its the bird nesting season. Around 800 broadleaf trees to fell and cut for planking. Probably about 5 weeks work all told.


Bring it on!!!!!!!!