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robineire Rank attained: Hawthorn Tree

Joined: 22 Aug 2011 Posts: 65 Location: Oughterard CO GALWAY
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Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 10:47 am Post subject: Chainsaw carvings and garden bed beds |
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My garden is like a forest walk with secret lawns, ponds and dry stone walls, to make it even more interesting I have been making carvings with the chainsaw of animals and am trying to save for a specialist carving bar and chain for my saw.
Another feature I am about to create (After I finish clearing all the fallen trees from this winter) is to make my veg raised beds into bed beds like the picture below.
At the moment I have 4 beds like this and a raised percolation area that I grow veg on, I covered it with seaweed last December before I injured my ankle and things sort of stopped in the way of gardening, anyway its almost time for me to start planting again here and I might even invest in some more scaffold boards and put a bed out on the front lawn (not really a lawn yet) and plant flowers in it.
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tippben Rank attained: Vegetable garden tender
Joined: 15 Jan 2011 Posts: 921 Location: north tipperary
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Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 1:46 pm Post subject: |
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Those are fun! They'd also make fleecing and netting easier. Cold frame cots anyone?
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tagwex Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 5188 Location: Co. Wexford
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Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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Puts a new meaning on flower beds!
I would have both ends the same height for netting purposes as tippben said.
_________________ “It’s my field. It’s my child. I nursed it. I nourished it. I saw to its every want. I dug the rocks out of it with my bare hands and I made a living thing of it!”
This boy can really sing http://youtu.be/Dgv78D2duBE |
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Greengage Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood
Joined: 09 Nov 2011 Posts: 3129 Location: Kildare
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Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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this is what you should aspire to, Kells bay gardens kerry
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robineire Rank attained: Hawthorn Tree

Joined: 22 Aug 2011 Posts: 65 Location: Oughterard CO GALWAY
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Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 3:45 pm Post subject: They are great |
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Really like the Dinosaur carving and I will have to try one like that I hadn't thought of dinosaurs.
Have a couple to show you a bear
And a croc coming out of the pond
Other bits and bobs I have to add interest are a wind vane and a mosaic I did on a tree slab.
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My Potatoes Rank attained: Pedunculate oak tree

Joined: 27 Feb 2013 Posts: 307 Location: Cork
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Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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Now that's a raised bed! Filled to the brim with growing media.
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robineire Rank attained: Hawthorn Tree

Joined: 22 Aug 2011 Posts: 65 Location: Oughterard CO GALWAY
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Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 8:43 pm Post subject: Some of my carvings |
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Well it took me months to clear all my fallen trees after last winters storms and I used a few of the stumps to make carvings and garden furniture.
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kindredspirit Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 10 Nov 2008 Posts: 2300 Location: Mid-west.
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Blowin Rank attained: Vegetable garden tender
Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 930 Location: Drimoleague, Co Cork
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Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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Agreed. Full marks for ingenuity, especially the garden benches. Me being me, I rather imagine that by now I'd have a huge pile of logs.
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Good guy Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood
Joined: 11 Feb 2013 Posts: 2593 Location: Donegal
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Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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Brilliant work and good fun. I love the beds! But then I always did like puns.
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tagwex Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 5188 Location: Co. Wexford
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Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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The Scotsman is back at last.
_________________ “It’s my field. It’s my child. I nursed it. I nourished it. I saw to its every want. I dug the rocks out of it with my bare hands and I made a living thing of it!”
This boy can really sing http://youtu.be/Dgv78D2duBE |
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