Lawns

thanks for the replies. I will be buying the turf from rolawn. I will take your advice and rake in some bonemeal into soil before laying the turf. As well as removing the old turf, i have to remove 4 hardy fuchsia's from the corners of the old lawn, do these root deeply? Will they start to...

Cool jazid, good to see you back mate. :D

Well, that is a lot of work. Be sure you get every scrap of root out, otherwise you may find you have a lawn with patches of whatever this is coming through it.

MJMEI have exactly the same problem as you.And I'm going to do what BM has suggested to you enlarge the bed. I think it will look more attractive as lawn is okay but boring, wheras planting new things will add more variety and colour.Think I'm going to do mine in the spring though.Stingo

Any ideas where i can buy some tall growing varigated grasses,i stupidly left some at our previous home

EU got all sniffy about testing insecticides and fungicides so Armatillox is now sold as a general cleaner. As LoL points out it does smell (Of disinfectant - like an old fashioned really clean Casualy Department ) It's my weapon of choice for anything mossy, green and slimey or smelling of...

Thanks Pete and Fancy, It's crucial to my garden plan that the grass has to go. This gardening thing has unleashed a monster and now I have found hundreds of plants I just must have!

I did some patching in a large old lawn last Autumn. I used turf from a border I cut from the same lawn. The turf is soft and springy and has been laid on a peat base. The patched parts looked pretty miserable all winter but now you can't even find them.

Thanks for all advice. The plant in question is definitely mind your own business and I'm more than happy to send some to Leicester as I really have got quite a lot of it! pm me your address Fancy if you'd like some. As for the lawn I'm going for a bit of a reduction of weedy outcrops and some...

GEORGEUN, dreadful! I also think you used a wee bit too much. I had my lawn returfed in the first week of may and WHOOSH came the rains foe 3 solid weeks I have not watered it since . now I have the most purfect lawn looking lushes and very green. dont over water lawn, let the lawn soak up the...

Oli ....Moles can cause problems here too ... there is an item here that you stick in the ground and it makes a vibration noise ( similar to the windmill idea but out of sight) ...maybe a good garden centre over there will have them ... M-L

pachysandra also makes a good lawn and very tough.

Quite agree fmay as when i was at my daughters i did not have my shoes on and i walked over her gravel to get to her barbeque area and it was most uncomfortable to walk over, so i could see it would hurt dogs paws. :confused:

Thanks peter , I never knew you could just dig the turf in , will save me some time and energy anyway. it just seems a very daunting task to undertake ! I'm not in a hurry so I can do it properly and as our garden is 100ft long(overlooking the 3 Arrows in Boroughbridge) I'll only be doing part...

I've had to do exactly that, Matt - if you like to e-mail or pm me, I'll tell you what we did - it's awfully long for a posting! (hope that doesn't discourage you.... :rolleyes:

I grow it by the path and it doesn't manage to get past the landscaping fabric. But it does spread for the less vigilant.BM

Well rotted horse manure may be a bit rich (great for roses though) - but that mixed with grass cuttings and kitchen veggie scaps, and newspaper paper should give you a good compost in a few months - following normal composting methods.The addition of organic matter is to help break up the...

liz. you must have the nobile one its okay just leave the flower heads on a bit and it will self seed like crazy..i grow it and it even grows in holes in the path the wind blows the seed everywhere..you dont need to keep buying seed let it do its own seeding..

In my profile I have put my hobbies down as cutting grass because that is all I seem to do! Mowing, strimming, flymo - concentrate on one area and all the others grow - my grass (can't call them lawns) is never pampered and I never use the grass box on the mower. I don't seem to 'garden' - more...

Still no ants in the lawn, boots ready to go into action at short notice should one dare to emerge. They are organised insects and some harvest greenfly, and the like, in various trees and bushes in these occasions I do use powder [reluctantly]. Who was it who suggested stomping will he or her...