Lawns

Yes,good top soil should be ok,sprinkle some compost if you like but I wouldn't spend to much on it. Make sure it's firm(no soft spots) where it would sink. Don't lay it on dry soil and make sure the turf has copious amounts of water for some time after. Good luck.

black birds and rooks do that, you could rig up your garden with 240v mains... then your find what ever is doing this will be fried

Hi guys,Newbie here both to the forum and to gardening. I have recently moved house and for the first time i have a lawn. (5mx20m). The lawn looks ok from the kitchen window (fairly even colour and no major bare spots) but upon close inspection is full of moss and thatch. So, after a bit...

Don't know about being ripped off because I don't know enough about the lawn. If you stick with it then wait till its taken and in the autumn have a look at getting it scarified in two directions to get as much of the stuff you don't want as possible out and then overseed. Then give it a light...

There has been some discussion recently on this subject George. I still suggest that it's okay to scarify in the Spring. I've just done about 1000 sq metres of lawn for a client. It took all day with two of us working hard, one on the machine and the other carting the thatch and moss away with...

will pop to get some from garden centre now, as it has been raining and looks like it may rain again today, just have to try and avoid looking around as i go mad and want to buy everything

Thanks for this answer: haven't been on this site for a while but on checking now I realised you had posted this very informative answer to my question quite a while ago. So - thanks!

Mmmm... with hindsight i would have done this but it's a little too late now...... Will this be safe to use near the leylandii? They are only babies (12" to 18" tall and only planted at beginning of summer last year) Any particular brand of weedkiller work best?

In addition to the above-answer (whose user I thank), I try to self-answer my questions. This subject goes on the topic: "Plant nutrition". Probably has been talked about in other threads in this forum. Threads about "FERTILIZERS". I report some meaningful excerpts from wikipedia on the topic...

Im assuming you had the clay dug out and the turf laid on fresh topsoil.

i take it u take the broom handle out??:hehe:

I would go with bean counter on this but with a slight differance, personally I'd scarify what you have, weed and feed it. Then I would seeds it all over and topdress it with a washed sand and top soil mix 20/100 (20 sand 100 soil). You can also use the top dressing to take out any hollows etc....

We had a small lawn professionally turfed a few weeks ago by a friend. He removed the top few inches of the old lawn and soil below. What was below that is as the OP described - we live in a clay area. Basically top soil was laid over the subsoil and the turf laid on top of that. We weren't...

Hi Apprentice.. I have Rolawn Medalion.. 14yrs since I laid it I think & I am very pleased with it always have been.. Takes the grand children's games no problem.... I feed several times in Spring & again in Autumn & have a lovely lawn.. It was recommended to me & I do not hesitate in...

Last year (autumn) I killed, dug, levelled and re-seeded my lawn with good quality shade tolerant grass. Success! It looks good. Its could do with being a bit denser, I get wheel tracks (flattened grass) after mowing that last a few days, and a few weeds are appearing but I'm happy. What...

Thanks, I've done it and it does look a bit shocking but the lawns been neglected for over 2 years so that was expected. It's certainly done what it's supposed to.

Good evening Alex and welcome to the site. Any chance of a couple of pics of the clumps?:thumb:

Actually, not too bad. I had to break up a lot of old surplus small pieces of York stone to make the hard core. Then mix five bags of concrete mix (expensive way of doing it, but more convenient) with more cement and sand added to make it more workable. The breaking up of the stone with a lump...

As daitheplant mentioned its really important to get a decent tilth going to allow for good root penetration once the lawn has settled a bit and started to push its roots through. Otherwise you will have the existing lawn warring with the new lawn, and once the lawn underneath starts to rot that...

More likely to be mining bees than anything else. As such they are very useful and should not be discouraged. The holes will soon disappear. We have lots of them in our grass areas and they make little difference to it. Even mowing closely does not seem to bother them.