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An Englishman's Garden Adventures

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    • The Green Roof
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    • The Cabin
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    • Kitchen BBQ
    • Trained Fruit

The Cabin

Cedar Singles #5
Treating and staining a cedar shingle roof

February 12, 2021May 11, 2020

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.

Categories DIY, Garden Buildings, The Cabin, The Woodshed 1 Comment

Cedar Singles #4
How to remove and replace shingles

February 12, 2021May 11, 2020

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.

Categories DIY, Garden Buildings, The Cabin 7 Comments

Cedar shingles #3
Identifying and preventing damage

February 12, 2021May 3, 2020

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.

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Cedar shingles #2
How to clean and restore them

February 12, 2021May 1, 2020

After seventeen years of neglect my shingle roof needed a thorough clean. Here are the techniques that worked for me.

Categories DIY, Garden Buildings, The Cabin, The Woodshed 2 Comments

Cedar shingles #1
Weathering, maintenance & longevity

February 12, 2021May 1, 2020

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.

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Cabin construction pages finally added!

April 7, 2019May 30, 2018

I have finally got round to adding the missing information pages about our first garden building: the Cabin. How I designed and built it … read more

Categories The Cabin 1 Comment

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      • The Lawn Garden – 1. History & Planning
      • The Lawn Garden – 2. The Design Process
      • The Lawn Garden – 3. The Design Rational
      • The Lawn Garden – 4. Construction
    • The Vegetable Garden
    • The Woodland Permaculture Fruit Garden
  • The Pond Garden
  • The Produce
    • Outdoor Veg
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