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Securing a slope with gabions – fleece water conduits
Over the last few weeks, I have now removed the plateau and rebuilt the slope. The gabions were also set up and aligned. However, further preparations are required before backfilling can begin.
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Build your own automatic hedge watering system
A good 10 years ago, I planted a hedge on the south side of our property, which consisted of around 200 Thuja Smaragd plants. These were carefully placed in the ground along a guideline. The plants I bought from a nursery were barely taller than 20 cm, including the roots. Watering the hedge took a lot of time in the summer, which prompted me to look for a solution to optimize this process. To optimally support the growth of this hedge and reduce the time required for watering, I decided early on to install an automatic hedge watering system. Based on the experience I gained from building my lawn irrigation…
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Plan and install lawn irrigation yourself 2 – Calculating the water connection
After describing how the selection and placement of sprinklers can be calculated online free of charge in the last article on building a lawn irrigation system, this entry is about calculating the correct sizes for the lawn sprinklers.
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Planning and installing lawn irrigation 1 – Optimum sprinkler placement
My lawn irrigation system is now in its 3rd year. After a few conversions, I currently have 2 valve boxes with 6 irrigation circuits and a total of 18 sprinklers. So far I have used products from Hunter, Rain Bird and Gardena. I am now planning to extend my existing lawn irrigation system to the
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Securing a 30-meter slope with gabions – setting up and aligning the stone baskets
After I had removed the earth slope the previous week and the subsoil had also been largely removed, I was able to start assembling and placing the gabions.
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Securing the slope with gabions – preparing the ground with the excavator
In order to be able to further expand the entrance area to the estate agent’s office with its small decorative gabion wall and to finally be able to offer parking spaces, an approx. 25 meter long earth slope is to be built narrower and higher. I will build a new gabion wall
