Lawns

The key is to having good, well drained, nutritious soil and proper cutting. No time at the moment but a quick couple of things you can try which will help all year round and especially in drier times.If you can, set the height setting on your lawn mower higher. A one centimetre height...

Thankyou very much guys... That all sounds pretty conclusive. Plenty of water required. I've had the sprinkler on for a couple of hours today and have bought some MiracleGrow lawn feed. Will continue to water it tomorrow.We are on a water meter but its probably better to pay the increase...

Mike, I bought some turf from B&Q that sounds very much like your grass. I've only got one strip of it about 2ft wide and 4ft long. The tips of the grass always seem to yellow and the rest of the blade has gone a very dark green. There are seed heads all over it even though I mow it at least...

I had lawn laid nearly 5 weeks ago. When should I try to cut it? The garden centre advised me to wait 8 weeks!!! but it's getting really long.

Hi, What I meant was once the concrete has dried, I used mortar to fill in the gaps between the bricks. The bricks only "sit" in the concrete, half of each should be proud of the mix. I should have mentioned that with an only damp concrete mix, I always wet just the underside of each brick with...

We have some weeds already growing in our newly laid rolawn turf (I don't think the gardener dug deep enough) what can we use to get rid of it. It's only part that needs treating. Thank you

Hello, I finally decided to redesign my lawn. Walkway and the lawn are about 5 inches lower than my driveway, so I want to install border edging or sleeper between the lawn and the walkway, this way I will keep the walkway below the driveway and the lawn, and then raise the level of the lawn...

Hmm, hadn't thought of that but of course they would love the easy access nesting material..

Sorry probably didn't answer you questions fully 1) wouldn't bother rotavating the land unless you where growing crops on it. 2) digging up the lawn completely and returfing it is possible. It gives an instant solution. Personally i'm happy to wait so i would try the weed killer/grass...

Garden Update, grass a bit better, still got to tackle the decking, dont know whether to add railing and a step ??? any ideas ??IMAGE RESIZED TO 800 X 600 MAXIMUM SIZE

we used a heavy duty lawn edging. 129.00 for 50m roll. works well with our petrol strimmer. bought online in best4garden, nice chap there.

Don't scalp it, keep your lawnmower height on the highest setting and apply the 1/3 2/3rds rule is what I have been doing i.e. never cut more than a 1/3 off

Hello,I just bought some Weed & Feed (plus some Lawn Sand) from Wilko.However, the packaging on BOTH products warns against using on a newly sown / laid lawn during the first year.There are several areas of my lawn that I have to seed / patch on an annual basis. I'm certain that if I...

Alex, if you`ve not had rain since treating the lawn then give it a good soaking. You need the weeds actively growing for the stuff to work.:gnthb:

As has already been said, considering the lack of rainfall lately, that lawn is looking pretty good! It looks much better than most of the lawns do in the area that I live.Also, as Doghouse says, watering once a week when its dry like this is not enough. I have managed to keep my lawn looking...

Sadly the RS is now gone, as has my racing days.:( I used to race with Bemsee doing supersport 400 on an RGV 250 which wa squickly followed by an RLR tuned RVF400. I then had a brief spell in the GP250 class. Sadly my riding style didn't suit GP250 and I kept loosing the front end of the...

I have used putting tomato juice in the dogs food, if he is on a dry mix it makes it easier again as the food soaks it up, but is a bit of a pain ensuring you have tomato juice in the house!Also heard about the dog rocks as someone mentioned but not sure of their success.

We had our lawn dug up, removed the grass, raked levelled etc and reseeded by the local Bowls Greenkeeper.When the seed went down it seemed fairly evenly spread but as expected not all of it germinated.When most of the grass established I started putting more seed down on the odd bare...

Can you not get a selective herbicide? I've got loads of the stuff, but I'm in the trade. Surely a selective can be bought at a garden centre? If you rotavete a lawn then the weeds will just re-grow and you'll be back where you started.

Just re-read your origonal post and I'm not sure if the gel is meant for lawns. I've come accross a few products that are used as water conservers for lawns which work well, but they'd need to be applied with a knapsack sprayer, not sure you could get your gel in one of these.