Garden
Choosing the best flooring for a chicken run
The best flooring for a chicken run has to be carefully considered. Nothing is more important than the welfare of your chickens and the right flooring can make a huge difference to the health and wellbeing of your brood. This guide looks at your options and what to consider when setting up a new chicken run or simply replacing your old flooring material.
Compost vs Topsoil: What is The Difference?
Ever wondered what is the difference between Compost and Topsoil? This handy guide explains the key differences to help you decide which is best for the job in your garden this summer.
How to Level a Lawn With Topsoil
Maintain your lawn and ensure it is looking its best with this handy guide to levelling your lawn using topsoil.
Ways to Use Decorative Gravels and Aggregates
Create the perfect outdoor living space by carefully using decorative gravels to enhance large areas giving them a pop of colour and texture while keeping them low maintenance.
Storing your logs this winter
It’s always cheaper to buy your fuel in bulk, whether it’s coal, peat or firewood logs. If you’re running a stove, then there is no doubt you’ll get through a lot of whatever it is you’re burning. The question is, where do you store it?
Three surprising ways to dispose of barbecue charcoal
Lumpwood charcoal is primarily used as an efficient and easy-to-use fuel for barbecues and other pieces of outdoor cooking apparatus. In fact, the charcoal we sell here at Logs Direct is a genuinely market leading outdoor fuel.
Chimineas: a charming energy efficient outdoor heating solution
As the warmer months begin to loom on the horizon, our thoughts naturally turn to relaxing days and evenings spent outside in the garden with a barbecue and good company. Even on the warmest of days, however, a chill can appear once the sun goes down, and you might be considering getting some kind of outdoor heating so you don't have to take your gatherings inside when evening arrives. Instead of a gas or electric outdoor heater, a chiminea is a great choice that not only provides an energy efficient and eco friendly source of heat, but also makes an attractive feature to gather around with friends and family.
Using wood chip and bark mulch for gardening and landscaping
Sometimes known by its slightly less attractive name of “mulch”, it is exactly what its name says – chips of wood and/or bark. Bark, mulch or wood chip is a fantastic and natural addition to your garden beds. Scatter a layer of it over the top soil and you will give the soil an added natural chemical-free layer of protection.
Stock up on summer fuels while prices are cheap
As we approach Spring, Britain remains in the grip of winter (at least it does here in Lancashire where it snowed heavily just this morning). Nevertheless, the chilly weather won’t last forever. Once March is over, the weather should start to get warmer once again. In other words, you have just over a month to get ready for spring
Outdoor cooking with a chiminea
They're the perfect outdoor heat source in the cooler spring and autumn months, but that's far from all that a chiminea is useful for. With the right technique it's possible to cook almost anything you'd put in the oven outdors in your chimenea. But get it wrong and you could find your sausages charred and your chicken pink, so read on for our top tips!