I'm thinking I should top dress my lawn this autumn. Does everyone else do it? My lawn book says to use 1 part peat, 4 parts loam, 2 parts sand...
Just to bring back this thread from 5 months ago... All the comments above were about the back garden, which still is quite poor, but at least...
As a follow-up, I mowed the lawn today, and my side of the lawn still looks thin and pale, but only about 3 dandelions were starting to come...
While I was at the Tatton Park flower show last week I saw "The Lawn Expert" book by Dr D G Hessayon for sale (for £8 I think). I would have...
As I don't possess a huge tool collection, it'd be the daisy grubber, as it's quite satisfying to use it and get weeds out the lawn.
Wow! That's a huge garden! It looks mighty impressive though. And I thought I was doing well having bought a house with a garden of about 250...
I don't know about the yellowing leaves, but box hedging is very slow growing anyway.
There were no problems with mud - it was absolutely scorching! Not a bad day out, I thought.
I'm going with SWMBO tomorrow.
I think it's a daisy-grubber you're referring to. I bought one and find it very therapeutic! Better than a trowel too, as you don't end up digging...
My back garden is the same - full of rubble. My best find so far is a rock about 12"x12"x8" about 1/4" below the surface. You can get a fork in to...
Hey! This is supposed to be my thread! :D I had been warned beforehand that scarifying made your lawn look a mess, but having scarified and...
Hi there, I ran out of patience with my lawns, so decided to get some Verdone to kill the weeds. I told my neighbour who said he'd get some sort...
I'd give it a cut now - it must be getting a bit long? Weedkiller I'm not sure, but other seem to be doing that now too.
Hi all, I grew some tomatos from seed early this year (end of February I think - I was too enthusiastic to wait!). They all germinated and have...
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