The children's slide and swing set was beginning to make some rather dodgy creaking noises, as they spend most of their time on the trampoline we decided to take it down.
Our first thoughts were, we would chop it down to manageable sizes and take it to the tip, then Mr MC&W had a rather good idea. The wood was not too bad, could we use it to make better edges to the garden borders? As you can see on the photo below, we had a sleeper that marked the border with the patio, we never really liked it as it was too big and there was nothing else between the border and the grass.
We managed to remove the sleeper and save some of the pegs then used 4 posts to edge the whole new border, Mr MC&W cut them to angles so they join well. We are really happy with the end result. We even had enough wood to make a border by the shed that needs a lot of work but at least it has a nice edge.
To finish the job it just needs some pegs and screw them into place so the new edging is secure and some manure to work into the clay soil. We have used most of the old swing and slide set and saved more of the wood for some possible raised beds.
Our first thoughts were, we would chop it down to manageable sizes and take it to the tip, then Mr MC&W had a rather good idea. The wood was not too bad, could we use it to make better edges to the garden borders? As you can see on the photo below, we had a sleeper that marked the border with the patio, we never really liked it as it was too big and there was nothing else between the border and the grass.
We managed to remove the sleeper and save some of the pegs then used 4 posts to edge the whole new border, Mr MC&W cut them to angles so they join well. We are really happy with the end result. We even had enough wood to make a border by the shed that needs a lot of work but at least it has a nice edge.
We also have this small patch under the clematis but it is really shallow so using a couple of the steps as sides and we can now add more soil in and hopefully can use the area now for more plants.  |
To finish the job it just needs some pegs and screw them into place so the new edging is secure and some manure to work into the clay soil. We have used most of the old swing and slide set and saved more of the wood for some possible raised beds.
How awesome that you were able to recycle that wood, it turned out fantastic! #DreamTeam
ReplyDeletewas so pleased with the results as we are not normally good with things like that x
DeleteI love that you could reuse what you needed to in a new way! Looking good! #dreamteam xoxo
ReplyDeletewe were so pleased as normally it would have been straight to the tip xx
DeleteI could do with this on our allotment where the raised beds are all rotten! #DreamTeam
ReplyDeleteperfect way to recycle xx
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