Chicken boarders

[furball]

Just posted this on what is normally a friendly garden forum

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Sorting out the back garden, started marking out the first raised bed. Grass sliced off and started digging the topsoil over, only going a spades depth down then came across what i thought was a large stone. S"Ooops, word censored!"ed the soil off to discover a very large stone flag covering a pot pipe that was surrounded by water. The pipe isnt broken but it is half a spades depth down from the level of the grass The house is 88 years old and an ex council house .So no possibillity of getting it moved without an astronomical charge. A gentleman from the local council is coming out tomorrow to tell me if its a soak pipe or a sewer pipe but either way i dont think i will be putting any raised beds in.

 

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i must be thick- i cant see why you cant' put raised beds in? if the pipe was underground anyway, it doesnt seem likely that it is something that needs access to , or it would have a metal drainage cover on it. with a bit of luck, once the fella from council has checked for any leakage, and /or repaired it, you should be able to cover it back up and forget about it; just put some timber sides around your bed to raise it up above the normal ground level , and you should be ok?

 

I thought my post was clear as raised beds are usually made of timber and raised above ground level. Can't see the need for the i must be thick bit and i explained that the pipe was only half a spades depth below the grass, wouldnt anyone be worried about a pipe so near the surface,and i wanted to put wooden stakes in the corners off the bed to fix the boards to. Please tell me if its me being over sensative as this really upset me, oh and to top it off my 5 year old daughter cut her fringe off at tea time. I know i would never get a reply starting with i must be thick on here so why cant all forums be as friendly, thankyou for reading i feel better just knowing i have had a moan.

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I wouldn't read too much into it . Often text just doesn't convey the real meaning intended even if smilies are used (which I notice he/she didn't ). The trouble is too, that you re-read text whereas if someone said it, it's over and done and can't be pored over.

 

Shame about your daughter's fringe . I suppose it's not nice and straight ?

[furball]

Thankyou, yes i suppose that's true, er and no it's not straight she cut it from the middle 2 inches off and on a slant

[Redwing]

I didnt read this as a bad reply, many raised beds aare made and simply placed on the soil so maybe they didnt realise that you intended to sink the stakes in to the ground?

[Egluntyne]

I don't see it as an adverse reply either. S/he is saying that s/he isn't quite understanding your predicament, that's all.

 

My daughter gave herself a similar haircut when she was 4.

 

Console yourself with the thought that it will grow.

[chickenanne]

I don't think it's a rude reply either! . It seems like the poster is being relatively apologetic about not understanding the problem - i.e. the person replying is saying "I must be thick"(becuase he/she doesn't get your point) and not saying YOU must be thick.

 

Lots of people do build raised beds where the soil underneath is horrific /full of pipework/other junk, and it should work fine (I use raised beds partly because my garden is heavy clay - as in, you could make tiles and plates out of it ).

[sjp]

if it's a sewer pipe you'd know from the stench also if it's been leaking for any time the soil around tends to be dirty black colour not a soil colour

if it's not a rodding eye or an access pipe then I'd put the beds there if the pipe work is visable you should be able to tell which way it's running then just adjust the size acorrdingly

also if it's close to the house it would explain why it's close to the surface as the main drains are more than likely shallow ie less than the 750mm - 1m deep than modern drain are set at

[bluekarin]

My daughter has trimmed her hair before now too Most recently about a year ago. She's now 10

 

 

And shaved off half an eyebrow

 

 

I answer to your original question, I didn't read the reply as being rude to you; the person just didn't understand the message