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Help! I need a Cheap fix for this.

Discussion in 'NEW Gardeners !' started by Pablo8383, Mar 30, 2020.

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    Pablo8383 Apprentice Gardener

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    Hi there! Anyone give me advice on a cheap fix for bottom side of my garden. No experience gardening. But as we are in the middle of a lockdown. Might aswell make use of the time.
     

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      Welcome to GC! :sign0016:

      Are you wanting to get grass growing there, or are you looking for something a bit more like a planter? You could make yourself a raised bed which would require some wood and then some soil to put in it - whether you would class that as cheap or not remains to be seen.
       
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      Hi. Thanks for your reply. I was thinking of leveling it up with the concrete so i can put a large shed on there. Maybe stones and a few plants to separate from grass. Im not sure. First timer
       
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        OK, I have quite a bit of recent experience with sheds, so hopefully can help a bit there - firstly, you want to have airflow under the shed to help keep it dry, so I sat mine up on breeze blocks (on their sides), spaced at fairly regular intervals under the bearers. Breeze blocks are as cheap as chips, so you could lay them out and then use bits of treated wood where needed between the breeze blocks and the bearers to level the shed up - that would mean that you won't have to spend money levelling the ground underneath the shed, as it would never be seen :)

        Top tip - buy the best shed you can't afford (go for shiplap if you can, and as thick as you can) and take your time putting it up. I used Project Timber for mine, purely because you can spec the shed exactly as you want it.
         
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        Why not put a greenhouse, grow some tomatoes, cucumbers, chillies, salad leaves etc, save going to the supermarket, grow a few bags of spuds, home grown spicy chip salad sarnies.
         
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          Why is there what appears to be a surface water gully grating at the back adjacent the feather edge boarded fence?

          As the gravel board at the bottom of the fencing would normally be level, and the slabs appear to be level with the brick courses on the left hand side and fall towards the grassy area on the right hand side, why the need for a drain?

          Is there a drainage problem in that corner of your garden? Or was there previously some sort of structure there with roof drainage and a downpipe in that location?
           
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