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I have clover growing rapidly throughout my lawn. What is the best way of managing this. My lawn is iin its second year.
In a response to an earlier question you had recommended a Wildflower Lawn, rather than a Meadow, indicating a meadow might be a problem as Regards mowing. What is the difference. I thought that with a meadow, it only required cutting once or twice in the season.If this is the case, in order to minimise maintennance, I would opt for a meadow.
I have a variety of dead patches in my lawn. Irregular in shape, from about 20'x20' down. The crows are digging in these patches. The patches have been there for a year or two but are far worse after the past winter. Why is this? What, if anything, should I do? Thank you. Pat.
Years ago, when everyone used cylinder mowers, I was told to alternate lawnmowing directions; longitudinally one week, transversely the next. I can understand why this is desirable with a cylinder mower, but is it still needed with a rotary mower/lawn tractor on a relatively level surface? With my long, narrow lawns transverse mowing is a pain in the tractor seat!
We have recently moved to a house in Adamstown and have about 66SQ M back garden. It is shaded by apartments in the winter but we do get sunlight in the summer. The lawn is usually very soggy and wet and the soil seems to be quite compact and clay. The lawn also has a couple of big bumps. I sprayed it with roundup 2 weeks ago and all the lawn is dead now. Following are the steps I am going to take. Please tell me if I am doing the right thing or not.1. Rotovate the whole lawn with a powerful rotovator (8HP) and level it.,3. level it again.4. Dig herringbone pattern trenches for the french drain. Put in perforated pipe and connect teh end of it to surface drainage.5. cover the pipes with pea gravel.6. once all done cover the whole lawn with rootzone sand mix to get 1 inch layer. Level it very very finely.7. Lay the new roll out grass or sow the seeds.I am planning to leave some space for flower beds. Can you please help me that if the above steps make sense or i am just thinking in teh wrong direction.
Just moved into a brand new house and the lawn has grown well in places but completely bare in others. Its also full of weeds. Should I mow the lawn, kill weeds, reseed bald areas then feed lawn? or should I just rotavate & start again with the entire lawn?I'm a complete beginner to this but I want a lawn to be proud of!!! Any help you can provide would be great!!
I srayed the garden with Roundup almost 3 months ago and again 10 days ago. I've now began digging it up but there's lots and lots of weeds throughout the muck and even roots of rushes. The soil it self doesn't look to bad to me. I'm just curious will rotivating the "dugup" garden be the next step and then should i try and rake out the weeds and stones from what remains. Should i give the "dugup" soild another spray of roundup ??
My dog is causing bald patches on my lawn by urinating in the same patch. Not feesable for me to keep him off the grass as my garden is not very big. I was wondering is there such a thing as grass seed that is resistant to damage caused by urine or even a particularily tough/hardy grass seed.
my lawn seems to be thatchy looking it looks like straw/wheat is growing in areas of it some parts of the lawn are a nice lush green no weeds what can i use to get rid of this horrible thatchy look also there seems to be circular roots in patches around it i have mowed the grass and these rooty areas were hard to mow but they did mow what can i do to get rid of them have only been here 7wks
Is it possible to re seed a sparse lawn in spring anduse a feed and weed treatment fairly soon after.
Am new to gardening and would love your advice. Moved into a new house summer 2008. Front 'lawn' is about 30 x 30 so not particularly big. Have kept it grass, and want to stay grass for the forseeable. However, the soil is only about 3ft deep. Then it's concrete/builders rubble. Planted some shrubs last year and they were all dead within two weeks. How best to prepare the 'lawn' for decent grass for this year? I have been sprinkling with moss peat for now and am about to put extra grass seed on top.
Can you tell me where i can get some 25-5-5 fertilizer for my half acre lawn i am in Galway?
We are a group of 5 houses and have a common area, about 1/3 of an acre, which we have just planted some well spaced out fruit trees. We want to put the area into a meadow. Roundup was applied 6 months ago and area has been levelled with a JCB but is fairly bumpy. Is it practical to put into a meadow and what steps would need to be taken?
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