An Englishman's Garden Adventures
△ My woodshed, before and after renovation Pages in this post Page #1: Structural Repair ► Page #2: CladdingPage #3: Renovating the roofPage #4: Paving In this four-part post I detail how I renovated a 14 year old rustic garden …
In this post I will show you how I gave my old cedar roof shingles a new lease of life using a preservative and water-repellant stain treatment.
In this post I am going to show you how cedar shingles can be replaced using only basic DIY tools and a bit of understanding of how cedar shingles are fixed.
As I learned the hard way, cedar shingle roofs can deteriorate prematurely. Here are the problems to watch out for and the maintenance needed to get the best out of them.
After seventeen years of neglect my shingle roof needed a thorough clean. Here are the techniques that worked for me.
In the first post in this series I look at how cedar shingle roofs have weathered in my garden over 15+ years, and how maintenance could extend their useful life much further.
For the last 10 years the greenhouse has been used for growing produce: tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, aubergines, melons, strawberries. Although this has been very successful and productive it has also required a great deal of work. I am ready to …
Here’s how I grew 30 Charentais melons in a narrow greenhouse bed just 5 ft long and 1 ft deep. Charentais are a fragrant variety of cantaloupe or musk melon, bred in France in the 1920s. Typically they are more difficult to …
I have finally got round to adding the missing information pages about our first garden building: the Cabin. How I designed and built it and what it is like inside. Take a look here and let me know what you think. …
I’m using the staging and shelf at the north end of the greenhouse to grow a range of ornamentals, including fuchsias, ferns, hosts, pansies and plectranthus. For the most part they are watered from the automatic drip system which makes looking after …