Gardenmac

Brazen, pulled van onto drive got out jumped 6ft fence and this is at a time when people are returning home from work. Neighbours car was on the drive so to pull in was taking a real chance.

Got home tonight after a busy day, trailer on and reversing in to drive. Noticed a small white van come shooting out of neighbours, came out so fast nearly took out a Merc travelling on the road. Van shot off but as he passed it was one of those slow motion moments clocked the driver and he quickly turned his head.

Neighbour, who is one of my customers just called to give us heads up as scrotes had tried to break in to his house. Luckily his misses was in a when she clocked them they legged it. They gave reg to police and they know them.

I wouldn't let them near any trees in future, they came to prune our Cyprus and it wasn't a prune it was a decapitation. Wouldn't mind so much but I convinced one of my neighbours beforehand that the guys doing the work seemed sound enough and convinced him to let them prune his beech trees. Best words are butchered to####!

Here's another one.

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Now you've gotta 150 no stopping you:lol:

These go down well with primary schools.

Nooooo don't set fire it's a prairie grass and it regenerates through fire. Cut it with hedge trimmer then use a sharp mattock to grub it out.

Prairie grass seems to have fallen out of fashion, had to cut n remove 3 big plants from 3 gardens in last few weeks.

Nooooo don't set fire it's a prairie grass and it regenerates through fire. Cut it with hedge trimmer then use a sharp mattock to grub it out.

Thanks guys, just off to hand pull the balsam patch. Noticed we had a couple of stoats poking around the borders this morning.

If needs be will dig out the .22's. they've been collecting dust since we eradicated the field rats that used to swim up the brook to raid the bird table.

To get rid of the rabbits with out killing them either rabbit net the garden or build a patio instead of a lawn!

 

 

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Patio not an option as its about 600sqm. Isn't rabbit netting to keep em out, too late they already in.

Spray it before it drops its seeds. Usually a timeframe of a couple of days between flowering and seeding. The pods burst sending them all over the place.

Hi Rob,

Will agricultural strength Glysophate do the job.

We had two wild rabbits in garden before Christmas, just looked out onto garden and counted 24 rabbits, 6 full size 8 medium and 10 tiny things grazing on the lawn. Went out to see where they are dug in and watched em all leg it and dive under old shed at back of garden. Walked down to have a look and was gobsmacked to see the whole area covered in newly emerged Himalayan Balsam. It's relatively short at the moment so 2 questions

1 How to get rid of the rabbits without killing them, Mrs Mac loves seeing them in the garden...

2. Will a spray of Round Up deal with the balsam? Although Mrs Mac wants to keep this too as its a good source of pollen for our bees...

I had a TT before the labradoodle, he was nuts!!

Yeah but nuts in a good way. Ours is a vertical take off when the postie calls, he normally bounces up n down to head height on the other side of the glass. Most recently he bounces on the windowsill at owt that dares to walk past. That said absolutely brilliant dog.

I can ask one of my contacts if he would be interested. He is based in Wigan but know he ventures out Southport way fairly frequently

Great to hear from you, hope your good,

Taken on a few of the requests myself but just this week it's gone mad and can't fit them in so thought it be good karma to pass on details for any future work that will come in.

Hope your busy and working hard as we should:001_smile:

I'm a one man gardening service, garden rescue. I'm busy with the maintenance side at the moment and keep getting requests to do larger scale works such as complete redesign, block paving etc. Not that I can't do it more that I don't have the time to fit it in between my regular customers.

Anyone on here want me to pass on their details to prospective new customers in Formby, Aughton, Lydiate, Maghull.

Gotta Tibetan Terrier, doesn't moult, sleeps most of the day, great in the van. He was a rescue dog and has his mad moments from being mistreated as a pup but he's a joy.

Today whilst out for a walk and on his lead a little girl aged 4 or 5 made a beeline for him and despite me telling her to stay back she tried to poke him with a stick, dog was brilliant didn't rise to it and as we walked past the girls parents her dad said. Good job that dog didn't bite my kid!!!!!

Me I smiled, held up my hand and said enjoy your family on this sunny day.

had 3 tarmacing scousers walk past our site yesterday its a dead end so they walked back to their job.....obviously they go for a walk on tea break....

Seriously, are you having a laugh, was it Yozzer Hughes and the Boys from the Blackstuff!!!.

Had some numpty's trying to take the cage of the trailer for the second time. It's bolted and locked with a boron chain and panic alarm. Didn't hear it going off as had the ear defenders on and it was only when a neighbour came in to customers garden to ask if I could turn off the annoying shrill coming from the trailer.

Asked if she'd seen owt and she said oh yeah the scrappies pulled up had a look around the trailer and then tried to lift off the side panels.

Lucky I always clamp wheels and lock tail gate to sides to make it really heavy to lift.

Saw scrappies empty a skip in seconds on roadside they took bikes, rads and metal left everything all over grass. Took a walk towards them and they legged it, I was on my own and the four of them jumped in the flat bed and legged it. No number plate on back of van.

Thanks for sharing, Mrs Mac thought the pic was great.

Many thanks, knew you would know what they are, can't say I've a real use for them but will see what can be made from them.

Customer gave me these today thinking they would be handy for tightening straps on roof bars or trailer. They look more nautical to me but you guys will probably know what they are?

One of them is stamped made in Switzerland so Nautical maybe not?

Customer of mine is a Nutritionist, lost her sister and nearly her mum to C. Swears blind that one of the biggest threats to healthy lifestyles is white bread. I dropped 4 stone by listening to her and giving up the bread. Eat porridge with no sugar for breakfast, take pure honey through the day with bananas, apples when I hit a low and jobs a good un.

She also suggest Almond milk instead of the semi skimmed, not gone to that yet but will be working it into the everyday over the coming weeks.

Giving up chocolate and the vino is the biggie but got to start adding years back on to this body after all its the only one IVe got:lol:

ouch! can sympathise re profiled my fingers before look pretty normal now but had a flat spot for a good while! got a wee nick the other day while grinding in an awkward place was wearing gloves still trimmed me nail for me!

Thanks, was really lucky not to cut a groove through bone, what got me was the arc of splatter on the newly painted walls n ceiling. Seems to be healing quickly,don't fancy using it to trim the nails though:001_smile:

+1 i once slipped with a angle grinder grinding some metal went into wrist it cauterised the wound whilst cutting it 10 steri strips later after a trip to a and e and was it sore. learnt my lesson from that. now when using machines i hate anyone near me who may distract they are asked politly to go forth.

It was the dog( Tibbetan Terrorist:001_smile:) that distracted me, cuts are deep but not anywhere near as bad as needing 10 steri's. have to agree though all will be asked politely in future. Always been cautious bout wearing gloves with grinder in case they get caught and do more damage, worth thinking about in future.

Yeesh take care Russell, I've skimmed my fingers a few times too.

 

Hope it won't affect your Easter egg eating this weekend mate.

Hey Si, nothing but nothing comes between Mac n chocolate:lol: All good bud hope you had a good Easter

Them flappy discs are awesome. One of our lads was preparing something for paint, got distracted and somehow wrapped the chest of his t-shirt into it.

 

Tore his tshirt and left some wonderful spirals grazed on his stomach and moobs:lol:

Yowch, brings a whole new dimension to man grooming:biggrin: