Building a rockery..

[dizzyblonde]

If its rented I wouldn't do too much or spend owt either!

Oh......and you'll need more rocks

Join your local Freecycle and watch out for adverts by people giving them away, that goes for any sleepers or stuff that crops up you might need. My parents had rockeries for years, and they were big ones, PITA to maintain, you've less maintenance in your lawn and flowerbeds!

If you dont mind spending a bit then get some weed control matting.

Great stuff, cover it with gravel/chippings/soil and it'll prevent the weeds getting purchase in most areas and you can cut little holes for the plants.

Vital for any sparsely planted garden IMHO.

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by Spank86

If you dont mind spending a bit then get some weed control matting.

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Aye, was going to say that myself, got a roll under the stairs that was surprisingly cheap from B&Q. No use in my garden now as I've ripped up the flower beds for more flags.......but will be most useful if I get my hands on an allotment

O.K cheers for that, i'll put weed matting and rocks on the shopping list oh and join freecycle.

Rait well the sleepers are down...



Delivered to the side of the house last tuesday and manhandled/dragged/flipped end over end all by my good self. Was bloody hard work to say the least!

Not sure if I ordered solid oak sleepers or in fact the 10mm coach screws I tried to attach them to the 4 support posts with are made by suzuki, and therefore prone to shearing. Managed to snap 4 of the 8 I had bought Meh.



Another big thanks to Owenski for the postcrete suggestion, bloody amazing stuff!

(And yes Matt I will stick 2 angle brackets at the join )

Worked out I need roughly 1.5 cubic metres of soil to fill them now, Kind of out of inspiration at the minute but I'm sure it will look fine, fingers crossed!

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

Rented?

I'd be mowing the lawn and not spending a penny on it, and referring any maintainence to the landlord.

Yep me too.

I done a rockery type water feature for a mate, he bought the moulded stoney looking kits and i used normal rocks to build it up and make it look natural.

BTW, when using coach screws in timber like sleeps, drill a big pilot hole first and dont use cheap screws.

I use the turbo thread ones for decking etc, they drive in ace.

Originally Posted by specialone

BTW, when using coach screws in timber like sleeps, drill a big pilot hole first and dont use cheap screws.

I use the turbo thread ones for decking etc, they drive in ace.

I did! 8mm pilots for 10mm screws, although i admit they were cheap ones, 6 quid for 8 of em, guess thats where i went wrong...

[Tom_the_great]

Originally Posted by tactcom7

I did! 8mm pilots for 10mm screws, although i admit they were cheap ones, 6 quid for 8 of em, guess thats where i went wrong...

buy cheap buy twice !!! ive spent about 150 quid on bolts nuts washes etc !!! owenski may have the link still but the m12 coach bolts seem to be doing there job very well !!!

Im going to get a few photos of my garden project up soon. just need to decided how to finish it off

Rait well it's done, just about. Need to sort out the edging but thats it. Gonna pop back to the garden shop every few months to try and get more plants for year round colour but as far as rocks go thats the lot!