Post by patty on Mar 25, 2017 14:14:57 GMT
I am very good at getting stuff not quite right.....sometimes even for me I am very stupid......
At the end of my garden is a bank...knotweed grew on this bank and in treating the Japanese invader its quite possible the bank is not as sturdy as it could be...its also possible that my predecessors here to remove evidence of a notifiable weed that they didn't declare pulled up many roots..certainly i did not see the knotweed until 9 months after i had moved in....but on assessment informed well established plants..they cover about half an acre of two farmers fields close to my boundary..hence the reason I treated.
I saw that there seemed to be water..swampy area if u like and I deduced all by myself that the water draining down the hill under my land was washing away the bank....sooooooo.....
I started buying 25l bags top soil....lot of.....and put some on then pegged netting over the top put on lots of stones and seeded....
next year dam knotweed grew..treated...more soil stones etc.....
and the same the next year....now this winter swampy area seemed worse...my stones had appeared to disappear..
today i go out and buy...yep more soil and also turf...b and q half priced it..wot a bargain.
I goes over the field...lightbulb moment.....all the stones have embedded in the field a little bit away from the bank..the level of the land is slightly higher than base of bank which is now truly a swamp of stinky knee high horse shit infested murky boggy water...
I have spent hours digging channels to direct water down hill and now must retrieve all the stones and rebuild bank.....
I have also lost one Wellington boot and thrown away one old jacket and trousers when I decided wearing eau de bog just one step to far....black boggy mud is soooooo disgustin...
so following my rather trying morning a question....
who else has made things worse trying to solve a problem?
Now going to plant pretty flowers.
Tomorrow.....rebuild bank again....
At the end of my garden is a bank...knotweed grew on this bank and in treating the Japanese invader its quite possible the bank is not as sturdy as it could be...its also possible that my predecessors here to remove evidence of a notifiable weed that they didn't declare pulled up many roots..certainly i did not see the knotweed until 9 months after i had moved in....but on assessment informed well established plants..they cover about half an acre of two farmers fields close to my boundary..hence the reason I treated.
I saw that there seemed to be water..swampy area if u like and I deduced all by myself that the water draining down the hill under my land was washing away the bank....sooooooo.....
I started buying 25l bags top soil....lot of.....and put some on then pegged netting over the top put on lots of stones and seeded....
next year dam knotweed grew..treated...more soil stones etc.....
and the same the next year....now this winter swampy area seemed worse...my stones had appeared to disappear..
today i go out and buy...yep more soil and also turf...b and q half priced it..wot a bargain.
I goes over the field...lightbulb moment.....all the stones have embedded in the field a little bit away from the bank..the level of the land is slightly higher than base of bank which is now truly a swamp of stinky knee high horse shit infested murky boggy water...
I have spent hours digging channels to direct water down hill and now must retrieve all the stones and rebuild bank.....
I have also lost one Wellington boot and thrown away one old jacket and trousers when I decided wearing eau de bog just one step to far....black boggy mud is soooooo disgustin...
so following my rather trying morning a question....
who else has made things worse trying to solve a problem?
Now going to plant pretty flowers.
Tomorrow.....rebuild bank again....