Hi, Just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for holding a tent down in the garden when you have very little grass!! Am considering getting a small tent for my ds & his friend to camp out.......but I have only a little bit of grass prob enough to put the tent on but not enough to peg out!! The rest is patio slabs, just wondering if anyone has any ideas for keeping the tent on the ground!!
Get some rocks - big heavy ones - and some extra guy ropes and tie the rocks to the extra guys and the extra gus to the tents guy ropes. But i take no responsibility if they fly away during the night.
But seriously, sorry I can't think of an answer just now.
Thats the only thing about haveing a nice patioed garden nowhere to pitch tent!! My mum & dad still have a proper back green so maybe just send the kids to them!! lol.
Tent can sit on the patio, pegs in grass on one side then imagination for rest rock-pegs , breeze blocks, fence, car, BBQ, grow-bags ( tie round not put pegs in ) Really anything that's available.
One the other hand sent kids to grans get a bottle of wine and enjoy the patio
as it was done years ago in the living room,three piece pushed back,clothes horse on its side covered with a blanket,blankets,to sleep on,and under you,fire backed up with wet news paper and slack with fire gaurd,OOHH what was those nights like,it was like a fantacy,and my mum would give a cup of drinking chocky,to go to sleep with a couple of home made ginger biscuits.
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When I pitch one of my tents in the lounge, I just tie the guy ropes around the legs of the sofa, chair, music centre cabinet, or anything else which doesn't move. So there you are......... just take the 3 piece suite out onto the patio & tie the guy lines to it
Tee hee Jean... and how often do you pitch in the lounge????? Mind boggles but it sounds fun. And Pete, I remember camping under the clothes horse too. No DS or batteries required.
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If you get a pop up tent will it need pegging out? Stick something heavy in the corners and it should hold down well enough especially when they are in it. I have 2 2-man tents from Wilkinsons (£10 each) which we have put up for the boys in their rooms and which really don't need much to hold them up. They love it. We camped in the garden in them last summer before we went away properly.
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Topic: camping in garden no grass!!
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