General Chat

The Aussies are losing 1-0 to Chile - oh dear

Maybe she moved there when she was young and healthy

So do I - I can't believe anyone would want to live in such a remote difficult to find place. Must be completely cut off when it snows. Magnificent views though.

I hope you won't have to collect the mountain lady each time

I will have to go back for at least three weeks - twice a week at the moment. I was there on Tuesday, and again today. The days vary each week.
They won't let me take the leg home until they are absolutely satisfied that I am safe using it.
Today for the first time I came off the parralell bars, and used elbow crutches to practice walking - did very well. :-)

Goodness what a dreadful day you have had. I hope your leg was OK this time so you don't have to go there again

ok - I've stopped watching football, but may have to watch the Aussie match soon :-D

Hello Everyone,

Carole - I would be interested in a photo of your gravel. As Alfie finds it so comfortable I may try it :-D However, as Linda says, I doubt it would be available here.

I have decided to have a membrane down one side of my garden, covered in gravel. Probably in the winter once everything has died down so that the plants can be dug out by someone.

Today I went to the wooden leg factory. What a day :-(.
The hospital transport had arranged to pick me up at 9am for my 11am appointment. I was blissfully sitting in the kitchen in my pyjamas at 7-30am enjoying my coffee when the driver phoned to say he would be here in 15 minutes.
So that was a mad scramble to get washed, shaved etc, and get dressed.
Then we had to collect a lady who lived high up on a wooded mountainside with tracks going everywhere. The Sat Vav was hopeless. We got hopelessly lost, so took ages to find this lady.
I still got to the hospital early, having left so early.
Then after my appointment was over I had to wait three hours for transport back home. Then after dropping off the lady on the mountain, we got lost again coming back down off the mountain, often on tracks no wider than the car. So having left home at 7-50am I didn't get home till gone 5pm :-(

Stop watching football Tec :-D

I googled that Carole, it is an orange coloured volcanic rock. I don't think it will be very common here.

My mum chose a red gravel for her garden, my sister said it looked like a crematorium garden :-( Ours is just the grey gravel because the drive is that, so it matches. It needs the membrane underneath or the gravel disappears into the soil and the weeds come up. Our drive hasn't got membrane underneath and we have added extra tons of the stuff to keep it topped up

Hello everyone,

Tec, we have some of our garden with a large scoria (sp) type gravel. We didn't use a plastic cover base and the scoria keeps the weeds down very well. It is also very light in weight and easy to manage. If you would like I can send you a photo to give you an idea of what I mean. It looks very nice and Alfie thinks its quite comfortable as he likes to sleep on it, he's one crazy dog lol

Carole

Goodnight, sleep well

Yes I think that is the way to go - I like the idea of gravel, and with a long handled hoe I could cope with any weeds that appear.

I mean of course gravel on top of membrane. I know someone who would do that that - not that poor boy in the village, who now lives in the Western Isles :-D

Skipping off to bed now - I am off to play with my wooden leg again tomorrow.

Goodnight - sleep well, :-)

The odd weed doesn't matter, but we find the cloth works very well. I got a jobbing garden company to come and do it in mums garden, it didn't cost much

You have a good point about small weeds germinating in the bark. Trouble is that I feed the wild birds every day. That doesn't help as the scattered seed creates weeds.
Though I won't stop feeding the birds as I get a lot of enjoyment from it

You could do both sides with the cloth that would keep the weeds down, the pots could stand on top of it

Mum had a large square plot with roses and a few bushes in it as well as a raised border around a lawn. I could keep on top of the border, but keeping the rose bed weeded was too much,so we had it covered in the weed suppressing membrane and gravel, it was much easier after that. Bark works as well, but you get small weeds rooting in it

I admit to being completely potty :-D but I like it.

One side of my garden is shrubs, so your idea there is a good one, and I could cover the weed resistant blanket with bark chips.

The other side is mainly perreniels sp, and rose bushes. Apart from the rose bushes the rest can go as I really cannot manage it now. Then I could just have pots in between the roses instead of the jungle I have now.

If you have mainly shrubs in the borders, you could put black cloth on top of the soil with gravel on it, that way you wouldn't have weeds. The border down the side of our front garden is done like that. That doesn't work if you have perennials of course

Well, you have a head start there Tec :-D :-D

Hello Everyone, :-)

Sue I hope that you enjoy Pisa. Siena sounds good. I once had two very good Italian friends from that city that I worked with.
Hope you both enjoy the rest of your Italian adventure.

Linda I also pottered in my jungle today. Everything here has gone mad too, so I must just let it grow around me.
The time has come for a radical rethink to make things easier to manage. I am going to have to be ruthless and make big changes to achieve a largely maintenance free garden - like Sue, I think the way to go is completely potty :-D

Sorry I disappeared, my sister phoned and we talked for ages :-D