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I've just taken on a new customer and her garden is totally weed infested with lots of the borders being more grass/weed than soil. The soil is horrible ,being a thick sticky clay. In a decent soil I'd usually weed kill and then hoe off the weeds and use a 3 tined cultivator to bring the soil to a fine tilth but the soil here is horrible,water logged and sticky clay so I used my "quick makeover" technique.
Rather than spend back breaking hours weeding I sprayed the borders 2 weeks ago with Roundup, being careful not to spray those plants/shrubs to be kept. Today all the weeds were dead. I used a strimmer to take all the weed growth nearly to the ground as you can see in the above photo .This is much faster and less hard work than digging up or hoeing off the top growth of dead weeds which are dead down to the root even in a light soil which this certainly isn't!
Then I spread a 1-2 inch thick layer of potting compost over the top of all the dead strimmed weeds. ( 2 inches is best but obviosly costs more in materials and labour.
The area I did today (in the photo above) took me 60 minutes to strim the thick weed growth in the border ,collect the compost from a local garden centre and then spread it.( say 45 minutes without the compost collection)
The long border running up the rhs of the photo is 8 metres by one metres and required three 60 litre bags of compost. The border you can see running horizontally in the photo has an area of 4 square metres and required a further 1..5 bags of compost.
The compost cost £5 per bag from a local garden centre. I could have bought it 50% cheaper from a DIY shed but that is 14 miles away so wasn't cost effective after taking into account my petrol and travelling time.
The photo above shows about two thirds of the front garden's borders.
The dead weed under the new compost will rot down and if a few perennial weeds survive the first treatment of Roundup I'll either dig them out or spray them off.
Within 4 weeks I expect this garden to be almost entirely weed free
Total cost of compost and labour was £35. I reckon another £25 will finish the front garden
The back garden is a little smaller so I expect the total job will cost the customer about £100 including labour which I reckon is pretty cheap to totally transform quite a large weed infested garden.
The front garden is 12 metres by 12 metres. Back garden 9 by 12 metres
I've agree to take on the maintenance of the whole garden from now on
Click on these two links to see "after" makeover photos
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I've just taken on a new customer and her garden is totally weed infested with lots of the borders being more grass/weed than soil. The soil is horrible ,being a thick sticky clay. In a decent soil I'd usually weed kill and then hoe off the weeds and use a 3 tined cultivator to bring the soil to a fine tilth but the soil here is horrible,water logged and sticky clay so I used my "quick makeover" technique.
Rather than spend back breaking hours weeding I sprayed the borders 2 weeks ago with Roundup, being careful not to spray those plants/shrubs to be kept. Today all the weeds were dead. I used a strimmer to take all the weed growth nearly to the ground as you can see in the above photo .This is much faster and less hard work than digging up or hoeing off the top growth of dead weeds which are dead down to the root even in a light soil which this certainly isn't!
Then I spread a 1-2 inch thick layer of potting compost over the top of all the dead strimmed weeds. ( 2 inches is best but obviosly costs more in materials and labour.
The area I did today (in the photo above) took me 60 minutes to strim the thick weed growth in the border ,collect the compost from a local garden centre and then spread it.( say 45 minutes without the compost collection)
The long border running up the rhs of the photo is 8 metres by one metres and required three 60 litre bags of compost. The border you can see running horizontally in the photo has an area of 4 square metres and required a further 1..5 bags of compost.
The compost cost £5 per bag from a local garden centre. I could have bought it 50% cheaper from a DIY shed but that is 14 miles away so wasn't cost effective after taking into account my petrol and travelling time.
The photo above shows about two thirds of the front garden's borders.
The dead weed under the new compost will rot down and if a few perennial weeds survive the first treatment of Roundup I'll either dig them out or spray them off.
Within 4 weeks I expect this garden to be almost entirely weed free
Total cost of compost and labour was £35. I reckon another £25 will finish the front garden
The back garden is a little smaller so I expect the total job will cost the customer about £100 including labour which I reckon is pretty cheap to totally transform quite a large weed infested garden.
The front garden is 12 metres by 12 metres. Back garden 9 by 12 metres
I've agree to take on the maintenance of the whole garden from now on
Click on these two links to see "after" makeover photos
www.flickr.com/photos/31559373@N00/25671048534/in/datepos...
This garden was totally weed infested mainly with lots of grass but also with several other deep rooted perennial weeds and lots of annuals. The soil is a very heavy clay and not amenable to my usual hoeing technique.
I sprayed all the weeds in the border 2 weeks ago ,waited for them to die then strimmed off the thich dead top growth using an electric strimmer. then it was a very simple and quick job to add 1-2 inches of potting compost over the top of what was left of the dead weeds and voila, a super quick low effort solution. Any weeds that survived the initial weed killing can be hand weeded out or sprayed.
A 60 litre bag of compost will cover about 2.5 sq metres to a depth of about an inch. i inch looks good...2 inches is better.
As the border was severely infested and it isn't possible to spray the weeds growing very close and among existing plants ideally I would have liked to remove all of those plants completely but the customer didn't want me to do that. So i've sprayed around the plants and will either hand weed the plants that are weed infested or possibly use a paint brush to dab weed killer on the weeds without killing the plants which I want to keep.
Over a few years the compost will be drawn down into the existing clay soil.
When spread to a depth of 2 inches it is easy to hoe the top 1 inch of light compost without touchuing the horrible clay soil at all.
I used this technique on my elderly mother's garden some years ago and it works well. She lightly hoes the compost weekly ( I live to far away to do it on a regular basis) Every 3 years or so I top up the compost
The whole of this border after this technique has been used
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More information on this here
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This change took about 40 minutes work. the border is 8 metres by 1 metre
To see how and at what cost click this link
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Yesterday I took on this garden which was totally weed infested.
1.5 hours later it looks like the above. to see how it was done using my quick makeover technique click the link below
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A day of joy as the sister-inlaw gets ready for the wedding festivities in the family! Its always a pleasure for Tabeer to make her clients feel special with her makeup skills & hair designs according to the occassion.Love it when our clients share their pictures with us!
The photo on the left is what the garden looked like at 2pm and on the right at 2.20pm. The cost in materials for this bed which is about 8 square metres was £20 in compost and £4 labour.
To see how this superquick method is done click on the link below
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I've only just taken on this garden so the border edges need straigtening and I'll get that done soon
Click on this link
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or click on the photo in first comments box below for the "before" makeover photo which has details about how the job was done and how much it cost
A photo of the whole front garden after makeover is here
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Wedding Season is in full swing & with the demands of different #brides for looks for different occasions, we present you a look that Tabeer did for a bride to be, on her engagement.
Keeping the complexion of the bride in mind & color of the outfit, Tabeer has shown a different kind of look with White eye #makeup along with neutral shades & a glamorous #hairstyle to compliment her Engagement #Party #look!
Wedding Season is in full swing & with the demands of different #brides for looks for different occasions, we present you a look that Tabeer did for a bride to be, on her engagement.
Keeping the complexion of the bride in mind & color of the outfit, Tabeer has shown a different kind of look with White eye #makeup along with neutral shades & a glamorous #hairstyle to compliment her Engagement #Party #look!
Wedding Season is in full swing & with the demands of different #brides for looks for different occasions, we present you a look that Tabeer did for a bride to be, on her engagement.
Keeping the complexion of the bride in mind & color of the outfit, Tabeer has shown a different kind of look with White eye #makeup along with neutral shades & a glamorous #hairstyle to compliment her Engagement #Party #look!
Wedding Season is in full swing & with the demands of different #brides for looks for different occasions, we present you a look that Tabeer did for a bride to be, on her engagement.
Keeping the complexion of the bride in mind & color of the outfit, Tabeer has shown a different kind of look with White eye #makeup along with neutral shades & a glamorous #hairstyle to compliment her Engagement #Party #look!
Wedding Season is in full swing & with the demands of different #brides for looks for different occasions, we present you a look that Tabeer did for a bride to be, on her engagement.
Keeping the complexion of the bride in mind & color of the outfit, Tabeer has shown a different kind of look with White eye #makeup along with neutral shades & a glamorous #hairstyle to compliment her Engagement #Party #look!
Wedding Season is in full swing & with the demands of different #brides for looks for different occasions, we present you a look that Tabeer did for a bride to be, on her engagement.
Keeping the complexion of the bride in mind & color of the outfit, Tabeer has shown a different kind of look with White eye #makeup along with neutral shades & a glamorous #hairstyle to compliment her Engagement #Party #look!
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