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Hi
We are renting in 47 near to Villenerve and want to make the place like a home. So we want to do some gardening. First we need a sit on lawn mower as it took Karl 3 days to mow the field (there is very little grass in it as it is all weed). We have looked at Castorama and a couple of outlets on the road out of Villenerve - Bordeaux. Any other ideas? Or is anyone selling one?

I have idylic thoughts of lavender borders and pots of passionflowers, Bourgainvilleas, and Osteosperums but so far have only come across geraniums and olenders at a good nursery in Dausse. Does anyone know anywhere else apart form Le clerc and Auchan where the plants look past there sell by date. We are new to gardening as in UK our small postage size garden is chippings and low maintenace.

and finally

We have been looking at these on the ground pools, we dont want a hugh one just for us to sit and cool off in after a day in the garden with a G & T of a glass of red. Whats the best type?

Thanks in anticipation of some good advise
Regards
Val & Karl
47140

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Hello,

Would not recommend you buy a sit on Mower from Castorama at all. If you have a problem with it you are done for! Go to a specialist such as Herriberry - there's several of them around and won't oversell you something too.

As for above ground pools - there are several you can buy on the market -try Zyke.fr they are quite competitive. One tip is dont buy unless it is in stock as you could be waiting a while for it, especially those nice wooden exterior ones as there is only one supplier in France who sells to everybody else and you would be at the mercy of them.

Any more Q's please ask and enjoy your G&T!
Deby
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Good, reasonably priced sit-ons are really hard to find. After ours died, I went to our local motoculture guy and bought one from his scrapyard that had a noisy engine. Just swapped the engines and now we've got 3000 euros worth of mower for 300 euros.

I remember he had a Snapper sit-on in need of a Briggs motor for about 250 euros. It's an excellent make but didn't look butch enough for me (it was identical to Forrest Gump's ;)) He's probably still got it - I can check if you want.

Stephen.
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