Lawns

Brilliant, thanks Kristen.

Hi All, Any suggestions for turf suppliers? Looking for a mix to include drafw perennial ryegrass to stand up to dogs kids ect? I am in Birmingham ps - I am guessing at this time of year I will be better of with turf rather than seed? Cheers

I must confess that I am a bit hap-hazard when it comes to watering my lot, especially as they are all in those square pots all tucked up tightly together - I just get the shower setting on the hose lance and give them a good dowsing; I don't deliberately shower them, but I am not exactly...

Just read this post. My lawn is green but has an under layer of brown dead lawn. Also it is patchy in areas and keep getting a lot of weed. I have tried to over seed but the new grass is a different colour ( of green that is ). I have been trying to tackle this for 2 years. Any help would...

You could try over-seeding it (i.e. sowing some more grass seed on top of what you have got). Bit late in the season to be doing that now ... Autumn would be a good time if you can wait that long ... if you do it now you'll need to water to get it to germinate, unless we get a wet Summer like...

The recent hot weather seems to have triggered a lot of grass in lawns to go to seed. It is no problem, but I would suggest giving the lawn a light rake before you mow it, to help the grass stand up so that you can cut the flowers off cleanly.

Hello and welcome. From the picture, it looks like your on a slight slope, but your house is not at the bottom of the hill, which is good. Does that sound about right? I'm guessing now, but I bet the thing under the wooden planks in the corner was put there by a previous owner, and was an...

Yes, basically, just that. It is the process of spreading a thin layer of sand / loam / peat over the lawn and working it in to improve the soil and level the lawn.

I'm not sure what you are asking for here. What do you mean by low and medium grades?

Sorry to jump into a thread here but kristen... Thank you for answering every question I had about my lawn!..that's why I love forums so much

Excellent, thanks again for your help.

Lawn mower doesn't go over what we have; that's part of what I hope to remedy. I hope that I can manage to get something reasonable to use by the summer...

StevoI have had a very similar problem to yours, looks to me like could be 'Yorkshire Fog.' Plenty of articles on the net about how it grows and how to get rid of it.One option is to use Roundup Gel as this can be carefully applied to specific leaves. This causes the broader leaved grass...

You'll probably need a scythe!

The usual problem with hover mowers is IF the turf is not properly rooted the hovercraft effect can suck the turf up and then the blade scalps it. You'd know if that had happened! so I don't think that's a problem. May not be ideal, but if that's the mower you have then it should be OK (if you...

Excellent seems simple enough, I will give it a go today.Thanks for your help

That's excellebt news, thank you both so much, i appreciate the Information. This forums great i will be spending a lot of time on here

I would go for a good quality, fine, soil-based compost, such as a John Innes No. 3 would do the trick.

Hi Stuart, Grass won't grow in full shade, so I suspect this is the majority of the problem. You can also see a pattern where the summer perennials have overlapped onto the lawn shading out the grass further. Even "shade tolerant" grass needs a couple of hours of sunshine a day. If it's not...

If you nail the pallets together at the corners it wouldn't take long to destroy them! Places like Homebase will deliver for you, costs between £5 and £10 I think and you could order online. Now you're thinking this woman's got an answer for everything!