Lawns

You don't need to water twice a day. But you do need to make sure that it gets a decent soaking when you do water.In the heat of Summer I would water in the evening, so that the strong sun does not evaporate most of the water put on it :thumb:, but this time of the year, with cooler (or even...

One thing that you should perhaps bear in mind is this: at the moment, your patio is fairly easy to look after with perhaps the odd scrub now and then to keep it fresh. A lawn needs constant care in summer, and this means cutting it weekly. Then during Autumn you'll have to rake it free of...

I doubt it. i think you are more likely to have dead wood or dead roots in the ground.

We've found there's no competition for food if there's enough, the birds and squirrels "play nicely." The birds have a couple of hanging feeders, plus a dish on the patio for food. They also have a Pyrex oven dish for a bath. The squirrels have a tray for their peanuts two feet away pushed...

I always know when to treat our lawn. I "do whatever my golf club greenkeeper does when he does it." I stopped using granualar feed, weed and mosskiller as I always scorched the grass. Wilkinsons do a soluble one and I've used it for the last couple of years with great success. I have an...

At least I can hoe them in the border if need be not like the gravel

i agree it looks very much like ,the nice man, has set the mower to low,and has scalped the new lawn.the mower should have been set much higher!. music

some improvement in the lawn now though some new smaller brown patches... will have to add a new picI have a raised border where my petunias are spilling out & covering the grass. Have already lost some of the grass, so is there any way to prevent this apart from cutting the Petunias back? The...

I was told that to bring areas of lawn up to the level of raised areas you sprinkle compst onto the grass in the dips and gradually let it grow up through layer by layer. We hgave seeded a veg bed in our garden and to bring up the layer to the path it joins, where you can see a definite line,...

Thank you all for your help!!

I do it in several directions, at least 4, if not more. Depends on how bad it is. If you want to give it a good blitz with the scarifying, either invest in a small electric scarifyer, or hire one for a day/weekend, and then you'd only need to keep on top of it.For top dressing, have a look...

I find that using a watering can much just run's off the plant - whereas with a sprayer I can cover the weeds just to the point of run-off. I use a very coarse spray, which doesn't tend to drift on the wind too easily, but I also choose a dry, still evening (insects / Bees already tucked up in...

Start doing it by hand, go for the bigger ones, and if you find there are too many, then you can use the weedkiller on the smaller ones. You will be suprised at how quickly you will find that they are not as prominent in the lawn, and it can be an on going process.Hope this Helps!

Thanks again for the info mate, it's much appreciated:thumb:

Regular mowing will keep them down - shouldn't be a problem

You can have a meter fitted and if more expensive ask to be switched back to rateable value within the first year. Also if you have certain medical conditions requiring high water usage and receive benefits you can get a special tarriff to reduce costs Neil

Lay the ladder flat on the ground, tie a rope around the rung at each end. Put the rope around your waist and tow in - like a cart horse :hehe:If the ladder just skates over the ground weight it down with something so it drags an inch or so of soil with it.The soil being dragged will fall...

Hi, i have a green house/orangery Planted up with bamboo , palms olive tree, grapevine and figs Because my cat millie has the run of the place i have a small strip of turf 12ft X2ft covering the soil this to stop the cat using it as a toilet Can i use some other low cover plant to do the same job?

Matt, Was it you who asked the same question on another discussion site? and were you not happy with the advice you got there? The same answers here so hope you are happy now.:cnfs: