Lawns

Thanks guys, Appreciated

It's a toss up between the leaves shading the grass or the damage you do by walking. To be honest walking won't do much harm normally provided it's not frosty. Personally I'd leave the leaves, at the moment on my lawn the worms are doing a great job of aerating. They are pulling some of the...

I gave up on grass completely. I put some paths down from the house outwards and planted up the rest. My dogs actually really enjoy going in and out of the shrubs etc. Fortunately they enjoy going in and out of the polytunnel too. One of them is a great ratter/mouser in there.

The conifers are in next doors garden and around 4 ft away from the edge of my lawn and on a lower level so I'm confident they won't cause a problem that way...just shade around this time of year. During the summer the lawn will get plenty of sun all over...if we get any :-)

Elliseum, please ignore the attached file on my post above, I hit a key by mistake and that came up. I've no idea how to get rid of it.

Right I've had a lawn care company out and done what you've suggest by asking their recommendations and of course price!It looks to be about £300 per year to get treatment. This includes: moss killer now. Solid tine aerating in Jan/Feb. and then every 9 weeks a fertiliser.I also live in an...

A lot of Fungi are symbiotic with tree roots, they use them as their internet to warn each other of pest attacks.

Hi luiza.Welcome to the forum. I used seed for my back lawn, it is about 80 ft by 15 ft and I had no problems, apart from the birds, but I just over seeded it at a later date. I got a 20kg sack from B&Q for about £30. Much more cost effective and as already posted by others now is the time to...

It's good to hear you're happy there BG. Yes, I'm prepared to wait but it's so frustrating and I'm losing interest in maintaining my present gardens. There's no point in doing anything other than keeping it tidy.

That makes sense. From what I read so far, I make the conclusion that the lawn aeration tools one should use depend a lot on the type of soil they have and its condition. The more the soil is compacted, the bigger the hollow tines or spikes should be.

Thankyou so much for your replies and confirming what I thought was right

Red Clover?

Thank you "M"

Thanks, will try again with the photo's. On one patch, there are thick, oily black patches on/mixed up in the grass. Then next to and on top, there are these flat, round coils/spirals which then go white on top as if going mouldy. Will try again with pics!

I expect its just the close-cut with the mower that is the problem. Mature grass would recover from that (roots well established, and provided it was not repeated often!) but I fear that young turf might not. I would over-seed any bare patches with some shady-mix grass seed; we are near the end...

No it shouldn't be to late to re-seed. Grass needs a temperature of 12C or above to germinate, below that it will struggle, if it germinates at all.

Well, one of the main reasons for aerating the lawn is to alleviate compaction and if you have, as I suspect, builders debris under the turf I would leave it until you get the grass looking stronger and healthier.

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You're welcome.

Thanks Axl - I don't think it's overfeeding as it's done by Greenthumb. So every 6-8 weeks and by the time they come it's in need of a feed.