Lawns

Sorry I've left this so long - got busy prunning (figuring we'd better do all the stuff we're going to have to stand on the lawn to do first.....).The good news is that now it's really started growing the bare bits aren't looking quite so bad.To answer a few questions - it is quite a small...

Do you actually need to take the lawn up (eg, for levelling etc.)? Most old lawns are already nicely compacted and if you start digging them up you'll have to recompact what's left.For laying slabs it's a lot easier to use a herbicide such as Roundup on the area of grass you want to kill off....

You cant trust anyone anymore, what happened to an honest days work for an honest days pay, why does everyone feel as though they have to rip people off???? does it make them feel big or important???? I feel for you daisy as putting that right is a huge job, i hope it all sorts itself out ok...

i do a lot of gardening and i ve found quite a few headstones, people buy them and then are not too sure what to do with them, one lady assured me her parents were NOT buried under the flowering cherry!

If you have a light-weight flymo type mower, you can do it sooner - I had to do it last week for one person, but I wouldn't use anything heavier, nad you have to have it relatively "un-squishy" underfoot! But, yes, it's frustrating! The grass IS growing, and by and large, we can't do anything...

its called hollow tine aeration, thats the technical term, lawn sand or a granular moss, weed feed appply ganules as the rain falls out of the sky!

I spoke too soon about it being dry, last night it fell down all night, some of it was snow. Had a couple of inches of really heavy wet snow this morning, really has bent everything over, some are not going to recover, had some broken branches on shrubs.

there are as many varieties of grass seed as you can imagine, if you want to fill in patches on a hard wearing lawn you mite go for a ryegrass mixture, which you can get in supermarkets as well as garden centres etc, don t be tempted by the Canada Green tho, it is so lush it will show up...

If you use a product called ROUNDUP then you can replant as soon as the grass is dead. but it will need rotavating, etc.. as the others have said

astroturf!!and plenty of ointment for junior's knees!!

Hi,Anyone know where this product - now discontinued :confused: by PBI (part of Bayer) - can be obtained, please?I found it so much beter than other products where I always left 'ungreened' lines on the lawn where I failed to cover completely. The blue marker prevents this, but...

I used to live in a terrace of cottages with communal gravelled drives. We all got fed up with regravelling etc and left it. After 2 years the grass had spread all over it and with the aid of lawn weedkillers it looked quite good, and could safely be mowed without gravel spitting up.This was...

Back to school? Nothing could be that bad

Lazy-Gardiner, I put all my garden waste in black bin bags, with some water and a few holes, to compost. As you say you can lob them into odd corners and forget them.They are easy to handle, and you can have as many as you like. I thought of buying a cheap council Darlek, but the problem is...

Liz and Nixonf23,many thanks for your comments. I will follow up 'Fasarium Patch' This does seem to be relevant to my problem

Sorry, late again. It's not best practice but can be done, saving time & money (who's paying?) :(

Great - thanks - will get out there and do it as soon as the weather calms down a bit :rolleyes:

rhs site, with plant selector is probaly quickest option for specific answers. I love grasses, but haven't direct info on sizes, except that ophiopogon is lovely but small, and pampas grass is probably a bit tall! I partic like festuca glauca, but again, maybe a bit small for you? Pennisetum...

This time of year you are looking around 4 to 6 weeks to start to knit and lay root in to the ground.One way to test to see what is going on, try the pull test. Find the edge of one of the turfs and give it a gentle pull, if it comes away easily you know it has not fused.As for cutting the...

If it is not a massive lawn you could use a straight edge. This could be a piece of timber, also knock in, as working, small pegs to give you a guide for leveling and filling in.