Gardening / Landscaping

[Trennaa]

Sounds like a good spot for a lemon tree !

haha wood be, if it wasn't a rental property. My logic - Tomato plant can be re-homed or just discarded and will produce tomatoes quicker than a lemon tree.

 

[Hertz Donut]

I've got the landscaper booked tomorrow afternoon, stage 1 is finally underway! The concreter is booked for Wednesday next week, weather permitting, and once that's done I'll post some pictures. I'm so glad this is getting started, my little one is going to be stoked that she'll have somewhere to run around!

Nice. I'm currently thinking about liberating a little equity myself, so I can bury part of the front lawn under about 20sqm of concrete. Although I'm also going to bury it under some walls and a roof too - I'm going to push the lounge and dining area out a bit further to bring the room up to about 60 sqm.

 

[kiwicon]

I've got the landscaper booked tomorrow afternoon..

 

[Calais5l]

haha wood be, if it wasn't a rental property. My logic - Tomato plant can be re-homed or just discarded and will produce tomatoes quicker than a lemon tree.

This is true, a lemon tree would take a very long time to produce tomatoes

Great thread will post my own when its finished

 

[Troy711]

Change of plans with the concrete, looks like it's getting done this weekend. The bloke doing it has had another job pull out so he's doing my place on Saturday.

 

[Heron SSV]

I'll throw some pics of my backyard up this weekend. I ended up biting the bullet and getting an inground fibreglass pool earlier this year and have been slowly doing the landscapeing over the last 6 months. Been doing a heap of stuff myself, the prices tradies charge is ridiculous, I've done most things for about half the price. It's turned out surprisingly good, with most family members wondering how I managed to do it without fking it up lol. It's extremely satisfying when you move out of your comfort zone and finish a project that you had no idea how to do before starting

 

[kiwicon]

Nice.. looking forward to the pics...

My family all use the one Bunnings account so get a very good discount from them, esp on timber.. look on trademe etc at an out door table.. whhhhaaaat 4-500 bucks, meh build that for 150

 

[Troy711]

Pics are in. I've tried to take photos from the start to now to give you an idea of how run down the back was. Seriously, it was almost at the point of getting a drip torch on to the bastard.

This is from the side gate looking towards the back.

From the back looking towards the side gate (I don't seem to have a disaster zone picture)

Half way up the slab looking backwards

The concreter still has to come around and do some expansion cuts because there's a tree next door that will likely crack the slab if he doesn't. I might see if the owners can remove it, it's just some piece of **** thing that just drops leaves everywhere and clogs gutters. Now I just need to clean the beds out, remix have them and then next step is another coat of paint on the pergola and then redo the timber slats (if you look at the pics you can see where they've been removed from) and then it'll be time to get stuck into the top section over Christmas.

 

[Jesterarts]

Lawn progress, 2 days shy of 3 weeks since I laid it...

From this:

To this:

Safe to say I'm pretty happy!

No going to lie, I am green (pun indented) with envy your lawn looks like that.

Out the back I originally had a nice fine, soft Santa Ana. But then I got the dogs and now it's a disaster zone.

I've since taken some runners from our the front, where I have a broad leaf couch that spreads like crazy and started transplanting it out back. Seems to be doing the job but it just won't be such a lovely fine blade grass.

 

[kiwicon]

**** that is a massive improvement Troy..

As to the neighbours tree, other methods are.. A: drill hole in it, full with roundup, watch tree die in weeks.. B: nail copper nails into it, watch tree die over xmas, new years period :smoking: