Lawns

If it's a reasonble lawn is there any reason you can't hire a turf cutter roll up your old lawn and put it back down on top of the new top soil?

Thank you all very much for the advise. I know where to come with my Gardening problems from now on.Donna

Hi SteveHow much time do you have to spend on this? It is not a little job and is likely to take you ages of pretty hard work. First off you will need to get rid of the existing turf. Either dig it up, use a turf cutter, or spray the lot with Glyphosate and wait till it dies. Be careful if...

You can hire heavy duty ones. Check yellow pages.

thanks for the reply. the light it gets is quite good and theres not that many weeds. would you just buy bags of `TOP SOIL` from a gardening shop?

I also have a sloping back garden and while I can't tell you exactly how much value you would add if you evened it out I CAN tell you that (speaking personally) it would be a shame not to be able to sit out in it in summer. My advice: get it done and enjoy the great outdoors...when weather...

How much should it cost me to cover 14sq metres with new lawn turf. And any laying tips anyone may have for me. Thanks !

Personally I would spray with a glyphosate based spray such as Roundup, which is systemic. Follow the instructions carefully as it works best in warmer temps and needs a few weeks before anything happens. When all the grass is dead (maybe five to six weeks) clean the surface, rough up the soil...

It would take me about a day to sort out you problem, strim the old grass down to as short as you can then run a mower over it to clean up all the dead grass, you should have stubs of grass by this time, now run a rotavator over it all go down about 4 inches, rake of any old grass roots and burn...

I think buying a lawnmower is very much dependant on what kind of finish you want on your lawn. If you're not fussy then yes a rotary mower is all you need. You can actually buy rotary mowers with a roller to give you that bowling green 'striped' look. These are not all that expensive either...

Thanks, have you tried this method?, did it work.

Hi Don, Well believe it or not I mowed both of my lawns (on a high setting ) today (Sunday 30th January ). What I find is, the earlier the lawn is cut, the easier it is in the spring when the grass is actively growing. Now this might not be agreeable with everybody, because it will depend on...

Thanks for the advice... I'll wait until the spring and see if it perks up any, maybe reseed the patchy bits, give it a good feed and hope for the best!Adam

Yeah I feel sorry for you Dave. But when anyone mensions housing and floodplains in the same sentence I get nervous. At least as you say it slopes which should give the water somewhere to go. Eventually when the rain stops. Good luck.pete2255

concrete it over.