My husband works at the local lawn tennis club as a coach and he has coached some really fantastic players in his time. Although none of them have reached Wimbledon standards as yet, they have still gone on to do him proud in competitions across the country. Unfortunately at the moment, the club`s courts are looking decidedly bad and my husband as asked if he could get some Grounds Maintenance Services in to have a look at them and try to make them better. He knows a few Grounds Maintenance Services people and he told the tennis club that it would not necessarily cost very much at all. However, the club have told him that they cannot afford Grounds Maintenance Services at the moment and, in any case, they don`t believe that the courts are in a bad enough state to warrant it. My husband cannot believe this and, I must say, I have never seen him so angry. As he says, the money they charge for membership means that they are in a very lucrative position and he thinks it is totally false economy on their behalf. I hope he manages to change their mind, for his benefit and the benefit of his pupils.

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I`ve been watching the latest series of River Cottage with great interest because there`s a strong focus on people growing their own fruit and vegetables. I`d dearly like to get involved with a project of this nature and I`m sure my kids would love to grow their own produce as well. I reckon we could start off tentatively in our own garden if we bought a few raised garden beds. They`d be ideal for our children because the beds are at just the right height for the kids to plant seeds in. Start of small that`s what I say with a couple of the raised garden beds and then we can see where our new hobby takes us. The great thing about the garden beds is they allow you to create the ideal soil conditions for growing needs. The beds are raised and this allows for better drainage thus enabling crops to grow far more freely. The versatility of the raised garden beds means they can be located anywhere so anyone can have a go at growing their own crops. A home could have the tiniest garden imaginable but one of the beds would fit easily into it and folks could tend to their crops within this kind of setting. As a fan of River Cottage I`ve been inspired to buy some of the raised garden beds as I think our family could become green fingered in the future.