Lawns

We still have to wade/swim through areas formerly known as "lawn". Still, at least the ducks are happy

Hi, I would be really grateful for any advice/reassurance on something. I am trying to create a nature trail around a large garden and I thought a great feature would be a wildflower lawn. earlier in the year I made the garden pond deeper and piled up all the soil I dug out of the bottom....

Thanks guy's, so now I know its liverwort, do I... buy some chips and put loads and loads of vinegar on them...then stand around the area and begin eating, and if some vinegar fall on to the liverwort will it kill it especially if I've washed my hands before hand with washing up liquid ?? I know...

Copy this to Facebok & we'll find out This is nothing, leafmold season is coming up, just wait to see how exited we get then

The seed has been scattered, if you'll pardon the expression.

If you want to have a nice lawn you need to prepare the area (same method whether you are using turf or seed ...) If you kill it with Glyphosate/Roundup it will take a couple of weeks to do the killing, and that will delay when you can start, and as Sheal said its getting late in the year (but...

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That's made a big difference to the garden Mowgley.

thanks kristen

Answered in (duplicate) thread here:

This is what I am now thinking of doing!!! Val

Good plan! It's a very odd dilution rate. Your email probably fell into the 'too difficult' pile and the person couldn't be bothered checking properly. I have self heal too, mostly I just let it get on with things! Once it spreads too far I pull a large clump up at a time. Otherwise I'd go...

Don't let it urinate on the grass. Dog urine can cause patches in lawns.

You've clearly worked hard! Another tip: a radox bath after a days graft like that will ease your muscles

Good find Mowgley Looks like they must be stock of last years model , from the reviews - all in 2011.

You need to dig it over to 9" deep (or rotavate if you can get a rotavator into the ground at this time of year - depends how heavy your soil is). Then break up and clods and firm it. The make it level (e.g. my towing something across it) Then rake a seedbed Then sow the seed evenly. ...

Ah, OK. That makes the job a bit harder I'm afraid, particularly with a large area :( Worth considering the "speed of cut" of the mower you have / and ones you could afford to buy. If the cutting time is more than you are comfortable with you will probably start to resent it and/or it...

What sort of soil do you have? If it's clay it's probably best to dig it over before planting and maybe add some sand to stop it 'clogging'. But I see no reason why you can't plant straight away as long as you loosen the soil particularly in and around the planting hole. Sandy soil would benefit...

I recently did exactly this, was trying to do as my mother said and get rid of the moss, She handed me the weed killer, and i sprayed in patches... abit to much , and the grass around the area i had sprayed started to turn brown, and die. But i dug up the patches, and sowed b&q grass seed into...