Lawns

I wish I could help because that does look like a real problem, it looks like you have thought of most of he solutions the only thing I can do is give you this link to see if it will help in your decision, sorry I can't help you more.

Hi all,So sorry for not replying - I ended up working an intensive job and wasn't able to do much gardening at all. Fast forward three years and I'm pretty much in the same situation, but the lawn is a little worse where bramble is sprouting all over.The lawn is probably a little worse...

My weekend townie summer guests always want to help in the garden (I wish they wouldn't, takes weeks to put right what they mess up in a weekend ...) and first on their list is using a chainsaw to chop something down. All that stuff is locked much further away than normal as soon as I know they...

Thanks folks. I'm going to hold off for a while (I might appreciate having SOME grass while we ride out isolations and such).

Yeah well basically that's what I've just done today. I've raked the whole lawn, spread plenty of seed over and covered lightly with top soil and then watered the top. Hopefully if I keep watering every day itll end up looking alot fuller and greener.Attached a picture of how it looks now

I'd be sceptical until I had calibrated it "the once" ... but maybe overly cautious? My cheap and nasty spreader lied about its application rate ... might have had something to do with the "cheap" part!

Unless it is an independent builder (and even then ...) they probably buried all the rubble in the garden and wrecked the drainage.If that is the case I would look seriously at getting them back to sort it out. It will never ever make a garden otherwise.I would put Astrotruf down ...

Is the house fairly recently built? I'm just wondering (if it is) whether the builders buried all their rubble in the garden as they built the house, and wrecked the drainage

Thanks Jiffy Crushed some garlic gloves and mixed them in some water and sprayed it just at the entrance to the drive way / Did this about a week ago and since then no dog poo on the lawn. Fingers crossed stays this way. Thanks Jiffy and all for advise and recommendations ...Much appreciated

There are some domestic ones around but they are aimed at feeds and not iron. The way you do it is best as it’s contained and the dosage if you have a good sprayer will be better. Domestic type spray feeder one attached to hose tends to leak, not good with iron and they are not particularly...

Hello @Liz the potThanks for the reply and the information.I will start at 2" and hopefully that will work for my conditions.ThanksKevin

Hi can anyone tell me what I need to do to prepare the ground in photo to put down grass seed? I want to try match it up with existing grass. The area is roughly 10 foot by 10 foot

Hello @Allett manThanks for the tips.Kevin

No idea about the summer as moved here recently . I wouldn't say it holds water but it is clay soil

Excellent advice, thanks Ricky. I poweraked and overseeded the whole lawn in the autumn, and as the raking ripped out most of the grass the overseeding growth is pretty much the entire lawn now. Annoyingly the patches of existing grass that remained after raking included these light spots. I was...

Thanks. That is where I got my bulk bag last autumn. I just need a few bags for lawn repair trhis spring and the minimum that they sell is 20 bags.I have gone with the Westland Lawn and Turf Dressing and will add some sand if it looks very composty.

Iron is good, while it greens up the grass it helps to toughen the grass plant. Just need some care but a natural source of iron is found in seaweed products. I just find that seaweed needs additional help.

Dumfries isn't thriving any better these days, and they've built the world's ugliest hospital as an incentive to us all to stay healthy.For anything half-complicated I use Gimp (not very well) and, for simple lines and arrows, I use the editor in Preview - one of the benefits of using a...

Thanks both of you for the advice - I do use gloves and will see if I can find the main run.

This is an old ( ish) thread, but would've been very interesting knowing the outcome.