Question

Right i know this is a strange question but has anyone a flower bed at the side of their house, against a gable wall?  

Answer 1

Not a strange question. However most property will have path near wall as soil and plants might affect the footings of the house with roots and soil banked against the house wall might breach the damp course and make house damp but it can be done with the right preventive measures taken and not growing things that might have very invasive roots xx

Comments

@athapaskan no path against it

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@olszewski well as long as you are careful with roots and damp against the wall I cannot see why you can’t xx

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@athapaskan thank u i was wanting to make it into a veg patch tho someone did say rhubarb wouldnt b great because of roots x

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@olszewski I am not sure because it does spread but if you framed it like a raised bed so air can get to wall you theoretically would also be able to control how close the rhubarb spreads towards the house and footings I think- not an expert just where there’s a will there’s a way type of woman xx

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@athapaskan im the same lol xx

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Thank u for all the info tho ❤️

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I might just stick to growing potatoes and beans dont think there wud b big roots on thwm  

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I try to always be nice and help people. I don’t like people who put people down for asking something that they don’t know. In these modern times there are a lot of people with nobody to turn to apart from strangers on the internet so if I can I give an answer xx

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That is very true @athapaskan and i wud be a bit like that also. Its nice to be nice.  

Answer 2

My parents cut a few squares in footpath to grow a climbing hydrangea up a house wall xx