great topic, im looking for cheaper alternatives for garden edging!
Having seen the ridiculous cost of the plastic and galv edging at Bunnings and similar stores i was aghast!! for…

"Molasses (E)
Treacle
Usually available as "standardized molasses" in drums, this is not a particularly high-energy product. Its greatest advantages lie in its properties as a binder and its ability to improve…

Hey guys and gals, how similar is Treacle to Molasses?? seems to me they are almost one and the same yes??

Those Galv beds are made by Hills Industries, the company that brought you Hills Hoist clothes lines.....i think the beds are Adda garden or some other wanky sounding name....here in…

Dal?
He was pretty friendly, and managed to do a really cheap quote in the end all things considered....
Hey do it ya'self for sure! its not hard, just time consuming,…

We fortunately didnt have any such condition on ours, but i said yes to a discounted steralizing price, somewhere in the order of $200 all up, id be pushing them…

Akers of lawn?
Had much the same with us too, without the 'free' irrigation offer, but pretty much around $400 to spray and sterilize the seeds in the existing soil.…

Awesome guys, will give them a go, Pet Stock looked at me blankly when i mentioned it, not sure they even knew what it was haha!
be good to know somewhere…

has anyone had any luck sourcing Molasses in Southern Adelaide?? Ive tried Pet Stock and a number of garden centres to no avail

Glad i could be of some help/reassurance, always a bugger when you pay someone good money expecting service to follow and get that kind of response

sounds like a bit of a fob off line to me.....
If i understand you correctly the sprinkler isnt spraying too far in a circular direction but too 'far'? Most sprinkler…

Love to know how it performs Richard, Will keep checking back to see how you go with it
hopefully if it works well you'll let us…

Hi Catriona,
just before Christmas my partner and i completed a reasonable sized decking area (7m x 6m)
A lot depends on what kind of decking planks you are planning to…

i didnt install mine either, but usually a quick look on the top of the pop-up will have the name and sometimes the model....
sometimes just a simple flat-head screwdriver will…

might wana give us a bit more detail on the sprinkler heads you have installed?
i know there are quite a few out there that you can adjust the angle at…

Sorry to bump this, but id love to know a few of the basics to top-dressing.
What form of organics to use (soil or compost?)
Amendments to use (zeolite, seasol, powerfeed etc)
Whether…

Fu,
long time watcher, first time poster (at least in the landscape and garden design section!)
Im in Seaford Adelaide, and surprisingly VERY clay soil, i had a fairly pro mob…

Hey Niko,
I completed a treated pine deck shortly before Christmas (had to get it done so the family had somewhere to sit!) and ended up staining it directly after…

Yeh Carlswill we were given the SS number with our builders pack, but told that the SS wouldnt be able to help us with anything until the slab had been…

Just a hint of advice to those building with F/mont, get your site supervisor's number as SOON as that slab is poured, and call them...persist.....thats all there is to it,…

Robinred and Sorrento,
I'm not actually an installer for antenna's i design them for a living so know the in's and out's of them. Only suggestions i can make are…

We contacted our land developer for our reclaimed water meter to be moved after SAWater came out, moved THEIR meter and didnt move the other pipe sitting there.....for close to…

24 views and not one suggestion? individual or company? i guess us south aussies arent very security conscious :-s

Lucky you! ended up close to $1K for us to move ours!!! but well worth it in the long run, just wish we had known about the developer's mob before…

Yeh we had our water meter moved...cost an arm and a leg too!! found out later it DOESNT have to be SaWater who moves it though....id ring your developer and…

thank god i got skinny arms ey pugs?

Looking for some form of home alarm system installed, south of Adelaide and wanting a good installer in the area.
No idea what i need just yet, so a good descriptive…

So we've been busy since handover thats for sure... it seems to never end!!!
flooring is all done, had a great guy do the floating floors throughout and has done a…

some people had trouble getting hold of Kris from Bluesquare.....which is dissapointing....he always responded to my calls and sms's and was fairly reasonably priced. Any $$ was worth paying for…

Same here Jessie!
We've got the paving guys at ours atm, but theres gonna be a whole front yard im thinking simple barkchips and a few bits of green smattered here…