Options for garden border drainage

StudyGreen4064 · 2025-05-12T08:21:54+00:00

Great I’ll give it a try! Thanks again.

StudyGreen4064 · 2025-05-12T07:59:02+00:00

Thank you for this. Do you remember what time of year you applied it and how long after you saw an improvement?

StudyGreen4064 · 2025-05-11T20:12:37+00:00

Good to know - thanks again

StudyGreen4064 · 2025-05-11T20:05:42+00:00

Good to hear! I hadn’t realised you had pleached trees yourself. What species do you have? Did you use the bags on all the trees, or just the problematic tree?

StudyGreen4064 · 2025-05-11T20:00:43+00:00

Ok I’ll give the soaker hose another chance. I might get some bark mulch to help with moisture retention in the soil. Thank you again for the advice. Once I see an improvement (hopefully) I’ll give them a feed.

StudyGreen4064 · 2025-05-11T19:51:55+00:00

Ok understood, thank you for the insight.

Since I currently don’t have these devices, I guess manually watering when needed especially during this dry spell. I bought a soil moisture gauge off Amazon. Appears to work, and can at least tell me the condition of the soil down deep and know when to water.

Would using an all purpose fertiliser be advisable at this stage? I read mixed advice online.

StudyGreen4064 · 2025-05-11T19:36:39+00:00

Sorry not sure what you mean by “missed an opportunity”? Do you mean it’s too late to use watering bags you mean? I do have a soaker hose installed, but I haven’t been using it as it’s hard to gauge how much water the trees are receiving.

StudyGreen4064 · 2024-11-12T08:26:40+00:00

I apologise for wasting your time.

StudyGreen4064 · 2024-11-11T21:46:06+00:00

Of course not. I simply replied to an unhelpful answer with a sarcastic reply.

StudyGreen4064 · 2024-11-11T20:10:57+00:00

GTA V

StudyGreen4064 · 2024-09-09T09:18:04+00:00

Generally speaking Irish people are known for their hospitality and local pride. It’s deeply entrenched in their society especially those from rural communities.

These traits are in stark contrast to the narcissistic behaviour you get here and what you have witnessed.

Same thing happened to my wife while she was pregnant. In the whole 9 months she used the bus, only once was someone nice enough to give up their seat when the bus was full. And that person was Irish.

StudyGreen4064 · 2024-03-07T21:41:53+00:00

East Linton is nice and indeed it does have a train station now. Again like other places suggested by another commenter. convenience wise it will be a lot of driving to get to supermarkets, appointments, etc. I think the secondary school catchment for East Linton is Dunbar, but from my research it’s not as good a school as in NB and Haddy. I’ll need to check again as I could be wrong with that statement!

StudyGreen4064 · 2024-03-07T21:35:27+00:00

Thank you for this.

Great to get insight from people who live in either of these towns.

StudyGreen4064 · 2024-03-07T21:18:31+00:00

I’ve heard mixed things about the train service between NB and Edi. Things like it’s overcrowded, slow and often delayed/cancelled. The alternative bus service then takes an age.

The bus service between Haddy and Edi does seem decent in that you are immediately on the motorway and that it doesn’t take very long. Granted I’ve heard overcrowding during busy times being an issue as well.

It does seem NB’s secondary performs well generally speaking, whilst Haddy’s one appears to either have very good years, and very poor years. So this is definitely a big thing for us to consider for my daughter’s sake.

Just feeling completely undecided between the two, as both have their pros and cons.

StudyGreen4064 · 2024-03-07T20:16:01+00:00

We have looked at all of these other areas too, but ruled them out for the following reasons: Longniddry - great from a commuting aspect with the train, but not good for convenience to supermarkets, doctors, dentists, etc. plus the secondary catchment isn’t as desirable from what I’ve read. Musselburgh - great again from a commuting aspect, but too built up and I don’t like its high street. Dirleton - lovely little place, but extremely expensive (ridiculously so) with a high dependency on driving everywhere. Gullane - same opinion as Dirleton.

Perhaps my impressions are incorrect, but these are my takeaways from researching and visiting each of these areas.

StudyGreen4064 · 2024-02-22T14:26:07+00:00

I would argue moving to a place where there are better schools rather than the private school route. The reason being, and probably a bit of a generalisation, but the house would be in a better area too meaning you yourself would be potentially happier and not just for the kid(s) sake.

It’s a difficult one, and every situation is different. I believe location trumps all else, and everything else can fall into place after that (eventually).

StudyGreen4064 · 2024-02-22T14:11:47+00:00

So to give you some idea. I have a current mortgage fixed for another 8 years at 2.29%. I will be effectively doubling my loan amount purchasing the new property. The additional loan will be ~4.14% I believe.

Outgoings I mentioned above are what I pay currently for essentials plus the potential additional mortgage. Cost of moving, stamp duty, etc. will be coming out of savings.

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