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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 9890168" data-attributes="member: 1">A couple of (multidog and rain decimated) lawns, with various things round the sides. Rose bushes, a vegetable patch which I have failed at 3 years running, a few trees (apple, plum, cherry), and random flowers. It basically turns into a giant mud patch every year. I had the lawns re-turfed last year as my attempts to save them amounted to nothing, and I suspect I'll have to do the same again.This is it in June after 3 months of labour:[ATTACH=full]433942[/ATTACH]This is it now (not really, it's Glastonbury festival after a torrential season but you get the idea):[ATTACH=full]433943[/ATTACH]The thing is, gardening is not a hobby for me. It's a chore so that I can have somewhere to have BBQs in the summer. But the mowing and cleaning and digging and weeding and stuff isn't fun for me. The bits I enjoy are going to the garden centre and buying stone ornaments and stuff, or ready-grown plants I can just put in place.And two active dogs make it really hard. That 6 months, where it rains constantly so you can't really do much, and they just destroy the lawns, is devastating. Other than keeping them out of the garden (which is really not fair, and we would never do that) there's not much to be done. I guess I'll be returfing again this month.</blockquote>