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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?
I have a problem with my lawn it is very patchy and yellow in most of the lawn i am in a new house and set it early last september and it came on well i cut it about 3 or four times before middle of october but after winter i have not cut it yet and the way it looks it could be May before it is long enough to cut how do i fill in the gaps and why is it gone yellow and how can i bring it back to a nice green?
I just saw the email from garden.ie where it said 10-10-20 did not have enough nitrogen for feeding a lawn after the winter. I put 10-10-20 on my lawn last week, is there any way to boost the nitrogen now or could I put 20-10-20 on now or would I damage the lawn by over feeding.
Do you know if and where mechanised lawn rakes (the ones with flexible steel prongs) are available (my lawn is too big to od it manually)?
Should I spread lawn sand on patches of my garden that can retain rainwater. The garden has been established over the last 5 years.
I have a small side garden that gets very little breeze and as a result water doesn't drain from the grass. I am about to rotovate the grass beginning April and sow new seeds(are there coarse grass seeds?).Can you give me advice about subsoil, and how to get a better soakage system for the grass.
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