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Garden rehab

kilburn · 2010-07-02 10:46:35

Hey guys my elderly dads garden is gone wild. I will give you the over view of it. Its 50ft long by 20ft wide, timber shed sitting on pebbles in the far right corner. I cleared the end beside the shed but im left with a mound of earth and damn roots and stumps everywhere. Thinking of putting down railway sleepers and just…

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02-07-2010 11:46am

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kilburn

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Hey guys my elderly dads garden is gone wild.
I will give you the over view of it.
Its 50ft long by 20ft wide, timber shed sitting on pebbles in the far right corner.
I cleared the end beside the shed but im left with a mound of earth and damn roots and stumps everywhere. Thinking of putting down railway sleepers and just throwing earth in behind it for a raised garden.
Is this a good idea, have no gardening skills looking to do a quick and hald decent low maintenance job?

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#2 04-07-2010 10:59am
simonj

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You could use bricks for a raised bed, I just used 9x1 planks with corner posts.

If there are a ton of roots, I'd say backfill the bed - remove as many as you can by and, but this would be one of the few times I'd reccommend a poison like roundup

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