monday15 Posted September 11, 2011 Report Share Posted September 11, 2011 Hi Everyone, Now i am a Gardening invalid and i am useless at anything remotely greenfingered. I have recently built a kennel at the end of the garden and the dog has made a rediculous mess of the quite small garden. The partner wants to get a landscape gardner out....I dont want to get my pants pulled down with a bill! So.... I am looking for some ideas, advice on garden surfaces that i could lay which are cheap or just give me some food for thought! I was thinking bark? Would i have to dig all the grass up for this? Also anyone advise someone who might do me some decking cheap in the tyne and wear area?! Many thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holly Posted September 11, 2011 Report Share Posted September 11, 2011 you can leave the grass there just cover with cardboard and the cover the cardboard with bark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sm0kah Posted September 11, 2011 Report Share Posted September 11, 2011 (edited) The cardboard would rott and then you would get grass and weeds coming thru the bark. Best of getting some liner down like the stuff you put under gravel then bark as it lets water through aswell. Edited September 11, 2011 by Sm0kah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monday15 Posted September 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2011 The problem i have is that it is a mid terraced house and i couldnt get a dumpie bag round the back as there is no rear access....for want of a better word Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaconBoy Posted September 11, 2011 Report Share Posted September 11, 2011 wheelbarrow? bucket? wife/kids and buckets? cheap polski labourer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monday15 Posted September 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2011 Yep, all of the above noted! But thats a hell of a lot of buckets, palava with a wheelbarrow, hell would freeze over before the gf helped and the cheap polski labourer...he would probably run off with the wife. No i am open to the above, just looking at my options Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V8landy Posted September 11, 2011 Report Share Posted September 11, 2011 Two options 1 Find some medieval artefact and then get Tony Robison round from Time team. They will spend all weekend looking for the rest of it, make a mess of you garden and put it all back to A1 condition. 2 Phone up the police and tell them you think there has been a murder in your garden. They will spend all weekend looking for the rest of it, make a mess of you garden and put it all back to A1 condtion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpbeaver Posted September 11, 2011 Report Share Posted September 11, 2011 If you ring a local tree surgeon you could get some woodchip free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catweazle Posted September 11, 2011 Report Share Posted September 11, 2011 My dogs ripped up the lawn and trod mud into the house, so I put down 3 tons of pea shingle. It works really well, no more mud and picking up after the dogs is much easier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulf Posted September 11, 2011 Report Share Posted September 11, 2011 If you lay down dust sheets and put hardboard sheets around the door frames you will be able to get a narrow wheel barrow through the house. Have you thought about fencing off part of the garden and then making a path down to the kennel, rather than sorting the whole garden? This would be more intresting than just looking at bark or gravel and you would have a dog free area that you could keep nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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