Lawns

Mmmm, would have to see it in real life. Stil want that other though!

Ok Dave W. I'll bear this in mind too. Thanks! Royster

If you put in the short morning glory (only 12 inches), then it doesn't get too straggly. Fancy sent me some seeds which I planted last weekend and they are up already so will bloom early in the year. You could sow now, then again in the Spring for a second crop (it's too hot here to do...

there are quite a few things to think about here, a good lawn needs drainage, so does it get waterlogged easily? you might need to topdress with coarse sand, and fork the ground to assist drainage is it getting enough sunlight ...... or is it totally shaded? the black slime suggests a disease,...

it has to be sharp sand [concreting/horticultural].... gritty, not the kind used for mortar, top dressing with topsoil / sand loam plus slow release autum fertiliser then broadcast on grass seed, the seed needs to be on top, it is really quite late in the year for grass seed, but it can all be...

its the weather whats making the mushrooms grow on your lawn.

I bought it, left it in the shed, and the mice loved it! Cleared it in one week! Probably not the experience you were looking for.

I think it would be OK to use lawn sand.

Think I'd do the same. Just think of your virtuous hard work as you sit with your feet up at the end of the day!PS bit excited by the biscuit references..I'm a Waitrose triple nut shortbread fan.

Your welcome. Preperation of the surface can be a hard work, but the results will more than pay back, as you sit on your greensward, sipping a glass of chilled wine :D

ground elder is perniscious. it looks like the leaf on the canadian flag, it can be tiny or big, the roots are typically white and link up to each new plants, try painting on glycophosphate, plantain has thick stap like leaves

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...