Growing up, whenever we went round the grandparents, granddad would be upstairs doing DIY and nan would be outside in the garden looking after all her plants and fruit and veg. The house was a non-stop, 30-year fix-up job that my granddad was obsessed with. Whenever we walked into an upstairs room it was like a bomb had hit it, yet there he was smiling away as he perused a catalogue for cheap built in wardrobes or looked for some advice on how to hang curtains yourself.
As good as granddad was with messing up wardrobes – and he was exceptional – he was never any good at growing tomatoes under glass. Nan, on the other hand, was amazing, and she would often use granddad’s ruined DIY attempts in her gardening, as I will demonstrate now…
Don’t panic if your home-grown tomatoes don’t look like the ones in the shops…
I have always wanted to be a Gardener and I think if it would pay well I would have become a professional Gardener. I know that flowers make the garden look beautiful, but somehow I don’t find them very interesting. The reason for this could be my love for food or even because flowers are too sensitive for my liking. I find fresh and natural smelling vegetables very attractive. In the age that we live, most of the vegetables in the market look like they used to look before, but they don’t really have the same nutrition levels. This is because of the wide range of chemicals used in the agricultural industry.
It doesn’t matter how much space you have, if you want to grow some of your own it can be done literally anywhere, even in a window box. You just need to be smart, and I don’t mean three piece suit smart either.
In order to see if you can grow something of use in the space you have, you have to research what grows well in the conditions and settings you have. One thing to be on the lookout for if you lack space but not enthusiasm is dwarf plants. Many seed companies are producing them now and this allows more and more people to grow at home in what would appear to be less than adequate space.
For some reason which I am not totally clear on, crazy paving has, for some time, been viewed as a somewhat quirky think to be involved in. On the contrary, what’s really intriguing about crazy paving is that when it is done well it looks really professional. The problem, as far as I can see, is that so many people do it badly. These examples then get bandied around as being what crazy paving is all about. The fact of the matter is very different, as in an expert’s hands crazy paving can look astonishingly neat as well as stylish and highly professional.
Here are a few tips on how to lay crazy paving so it isn’t a disaster.
1) It may sound obvious but please, come on, get the floor even and level before you begin! You don’t want to get half-way through the job, only to discover that the whole lot needs to come up again, trust me…
When it comes to laying your crazy paving, do pay some attention to which bits you use
2) Let’s say, for example, you run your company – solar panels surrey , for argument’s sake – from home and the solar panels on your roof are hexagonal. Now, if you are showing customers in through your delightful back garden then you want your crazy paving to naturally reflect the solar panels'shapes, right? Of course you do. So go about the task of cutting the paving methodically, or get someone to help you who knows what they are doing. It may cost you more in the beginning, but the end result will be time saved and a smoother finish.
3) When it comes to laying your crazy paving, do pay some attention to which bits you use. Although this type of paving is very forgiving, you can’t be too casual with it. To make sure it all looks uniform, be sure to keep the gaps between all the paving slabs at the same width.
4) Want to do some multi-coloured crazy paving? No problem! The beauty of this is that crazy paving really lends itself to diversity and colour. If you like you can even create a mosaic, so that anyone looking out from the upstairs window will see an impressive and colourful display!
5) You don’t need to fill the gaps with boring old plain-coloured concrete. There are plenty of more vibrant alternatives out there for you to take advantage of, so be sure to scour the internet and find the possibility which works best for you!
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