Lawns

When we moved house recently the grass was awful - loads of moss and weeds etc. I used that stuff that kills moss and raked it out and was left with loads of bare patches. Now (2 months on) the grass has been fed (at intervals shorter than recommended on the pack) and I do water it every couple...

Ok Will thanks for all your help

Would that be the Periphique? (20 miles in diameter sounds a bit small!)Phil

thank you WILL only have hover mower but can change height will give it a bash tomorrow evening thank you once again

Reclaimed hardwood railway sleepers might be an option

I removed my grotty front lawn and replaced it with a weed suppressant membrane covered with plum coloured slate chippings. You can just about see it in my avatar. They've been there about four years now and no sign of weed breakthrough (yet!). And neither my three cats nor the neighbouring ones...

Been there in a previous gardening existence and layed new turf on top of old to raise the overall height.But I cut out the original turf and turned it over to help it rot - dunno whether it made it rot quicker by being upside down, but seemed like a sound idea at the time!New lawn looked...

i'll take a pic tonight col, and put up tomorrow! thanks

I agree that you shouldn't lay a layer of sand but do support the addition of large amounts of sharp or grit sand to heavy soil types. I insist however that it should be incorporated by rotovator. Because of differing expansion and contraction rates of stone and soil it will cause fractures and...

That is right but check what percentage of "active ingredient" is included as some products are stronger than others

When you say it is clay, it may be the subsoil which the builders have generously given you. Not the best stuff to grow in. As I have said elsewhere there is no substitute to digging a pit for a look see. Sub-surface problems in new housing is very common. There are clay and sand soils in NE...

I would add one point, have you had extremes of rain and dessicating dry winds (we have up here in East Scotland) This can cause problems with emerging seeds (encouraged to germinate by heavy rain and then hammered by dessicating wind). This, alongside the spring weed flush, is why autumn takes...

Remember the top can still look dry even if the real water problem is deep down. Only solution is to dig a pit to investigate. Check outfall from draiage system runs shortly after heavy rain.

It sounds as though the lawn is pretty well established, so just about any lawn food will do. I prefer the slow release ones, because they'll usually last a couple of months even if it pours with rain all summer - but they are more expensive.Go for a spring / summer NPK analysis, which means...

Thank you both for your helpNGF

Just a tip on starting off a new lawn which I have done on previous occasion. I normally mix my grass seeds with a good multi purpose compost in a wheelbarrow. I leave it for about five days in the garden shed, turning it once a day, whereby it will start to sprout, I then sow it on the...

thanks for the advice i,m sorry i took so long to reply but i had to go out, i,ll pass on the info thanks again Duncan

I would do the following if you don't want to returf and that would be my way.Rake the lawn to remove the moss and the accumulated debris. Moss can be sign of compacted soil.Aereate - use a garden fork, and dig in, lever back a little, and add sharp sand to increase the drainage, then sow...

Thanks for the replies, it looks as though my choices are limited. I would happily bring in a company, as Will suggested, but most are little more than cowboys who might do more harm than good. I can't really gravel the area because it's about 1200m2. I'll do as Fran suggested and look around at...

Thanks for the pics e17ab.It looks to me as though this is Baby's Tears, also known as Angels Tears or Mind Your Own Business (Latin Soleirolia soleirolii) - if you run a google images search for that, you'll probably find a few more pictures to compare yours to.A broad leaf selective weed...