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Included is a photo of something that comes overnight, it is weird, I have a small dog and would it be harmful if she ate it.
How soon can I sow a new lawn? My rural garden is in County Laois. It is fairly well drained, and the area for sowing is sheltered on the south-east side only.
I intend to kill lawn moss. May I leave the dead moss on the lawn to rot? Unsightly, I know, but I recall you dealing with this some tome ago
I have recently moved to Ireland and have a huge back garden that i wish to make into a flower garden, how do i compost all the grass clippings that i am about to get?
I wonder what is the best product to put on the tarmacadam to kill moss, When is the best time to apply and do you do it when the ground is dry.
I have a tiny patch of lawn (6m2)- over the last few months it has started to die off (about 30%) in patches and there are lots of little holes in the soil. Tonight i went out the back and i see tons of slugs - small little brown slugs on the parts of the grass left. Are these the problem - is this common - how do I fix it and reseed? ThanksPhoto attached showing about 5 slugs in a 10 inch square area (taken at night).
I have a decent sized back garden which is mainly grass, it is quiet uneven and there if it was taken up, I am sure we would find a lot of builders rubble underneath. As a result, the drainage is quiet bad in parts and the surface is quiet uneven. Just to add to the situation we have 2 dogs! Anyway! it has a lot of weeds and a good few bare and muddy patches due to th draginage problem. Is there a quick fix to improve the quality of grass until we have money to relay the lawn next summer? Would you be able to reccommend a good seed and feed that I could use if this would help. I tried doing this last year but did not make much difference.
When is the best time to scarify a lawn?
What would you recommend to restore a horse trodden lawn to its original condition as at 4th February. Basically two horses intruded on a lawn one night and left a lot of hoofprints. The lawn is an average square sub-urban back-garden lawn with no flower-beds. The soil is fairly soft and there are just imprints of horses's hooves - see attached photos. Will a roll suffice? Should it be done now in February? Or should we wait until the ground dries out in, say April. Would it need o be aerated? Or is there something else we should do?
I would like to know your opinion on using grass clippings for mulching a flower border and a shrub border. We produce a lot of clippings when the lawn is growing and I have been putting some of them on the borders to cut down weeds, conserve moisture and to rot down into the soil - but not too thickly as if I do they 'sludge' up.
I have about one acre in lawn and whilst I mulch as much as I can there are times I do have to cut and collect. I dump the cut grass in two dirty corners in the garden but now they are just unusable as they contain a dreadful gunge. I cannot drive the mower in. Is there anything I can do to break down or dry up this ugly mess?
I've been seeing these strange little mud piles everywhere recently, and I'm wondering if they are earthworm castings? They seem to appear where the ground is particularly wet or muddy. They don't seem to be anything like any castings images I can find on the internet. Do you know what they are?!
My lawn was sown a year and a half ago and was lovely and rich green in colour last spring but as summer and autumn came so did yellow patches. I have an acre of lawn and yellow patches are quiet noticeable but grass is still very much alive. With spring coming what fertiliser or feed can I use to treat lawn to bring back healthy green lush grass.
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