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£70 from screwfix (other shops are.available) and you can do in 10 minutes what takes hours if you do it by hand.
Not sure if I am happy at the labour saving device or peed off I've previosuly spent days needlessly getting blisters on my hands every spring in the Lagos v moss battle.
Just got a bird feeder with a motion sensor camera the other day. Figured it would be good for the nippers to learn about the different birds in the garden. Plus I love a gadget. Installed it before kick off last night to calm the nerves.
Scarifying ones lawn and then over seeding with quality top soil, and rubbing it all in with the back of a rake into all the grooves, is the most satisfying of all lawn care jobs. Bliss!
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Gardeners of Twtd - top tip on 20:09 - Apr 23 with 2468 views
Gardeners of Twtd - top tip on 07:19 - Apr 24 by Benters
Sod that,as long as it’s green I’m happy.
Moss weeds anything goes.
There is a lot of truth in this chap. Bloke I work for is obsessed with his lawn. Spends a fortune on lawn treatments and always ends up with a vast brown tundra looking area by August. The key to keeping the moss manageable and a degree of greenery is not to cut it to within an inch of its life all year.
We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub.
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Gardeners of Twtd - top tip on 07:54 - Apr 24 with 1649 views
There is a lot of truth in this chap. Bloke I work for is obsessed with his lawn. Spends a fortune on lawn treatments and always ends up with a vast brown tundra looking area by August. The key to keeping the moss manageable and a degree of greenery is not to cut it to within an inch of its life all year.
The rooting depth of the plant is basically correlated to the top growth. If you cut it down to an inch, the roots will go an inch. A few weeks of dry weather and you're toast.
Not sure people realise we get about as much rain here as Algeria!
Gardeners of Twtd - top tip on 08:12 - Apr 24 by BackToRussia
The rooting depth of the plant is basically correlated to the top growth. If you cut it down to an inch, the roots will go an inch. A few weeks of dry weather and you're toast.
Not sure people realise we get about as much rain here as Algeria!
Spot on. The obsession with bowling green type lawns drives me round the bend sometimes. Already around these areas of Suffolk, some folks are wondering why their grass looks so poor. I’ve only had forty eight years of experience and they still don’t take it on board but hey ho 🤷🏻♂️
We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub.
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Gardeners of Twtd - top tip on 09:25 - Apr 24 with 1451 views
Gardeners of Twtd - top tip on 07:54 - Apr 24 by DanTheMan
Clover lawns are pretty good too.
A great book called 'The Camomile Lawn' by Mary Wesley got me wondering if they were practical or viable up here in the Yorkshire Dales, but think I've got enough on my plate already with all the weeding, mowing, strimming, cutting back, planting, watering & veg plot work as it is!
Gardeners of Twtd - top tip on 09:25 - Apr 24 by Ryorry
A great book called 'The Camomile Lawn' by Mary Wesley got me wondering if they were practical or viable up here in the Yorkshire Dales, but think I've got enough on my plate already with all the weeding, mowing, strimming, cutting back, planting, watering & veg plot work as it is!
With the wedding?! I nearly sent congrats and had to do a double take.
My better half and handler wants a clover lawn. Or wildflowers, but they’ll just hold the wet and mean we can never use the lawn. At the moment I’m cultivating dandelions.
Gardeners of Twtd - top tip on 10:03 - Apr 24 by Swansea_Blue
With the wedding?! I nearly sent congrats and had to do a double take.
My better half and handler wants a clover lawn. Or wildflowers, but they’ll just hold the wet and mean we can never use the lawn. At the moment I’m cultivating dandelions.
I spent a while converting half my grass to wildflower meadow a few years back, but to maintain it was much more work than the grass and after the first couple of years it just looked like I'd forgotten to cut the grass, so it has reverted to its former state.
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Gardeners of Twtd - top tip on 10:23 - Apr 24 with 1319 views
Gardeners of Twtd - top tip on 10:17 - Apr 24 by Meadowlark
I spent a while converting half my grass to wildflower meadow a few years back, but to maintain it was much more work than the grass and after the first couple of years it just looked like I'd forgotten to cut the grass, so it has reverted to its former state.
Yeah, we had a small patch and that just turned back to grass. Moss and dandelions seem a lot easier to keep. The birds like the moss for their nests as well, so I leave it through the winter and early spring and then thin it out in early summer. Tortoises like dandelions, but we don’t have many of those around here!
Gardeners of Twtd - top tip on 08:12 - Apr 24 by BackToRussia
The rooting depth of the plant is basically correlated to the top growth. If you cut it down to an inch, the roots will go an inch. A few weeks of dry weather and you're toast.
Not sure people realise we get about as much rain here as Algeria!
I remember reading a novel by John Christopher called The Death of Grass in my GCSE English in the mid ‘70’s. Was written in 1956 but it was quite prophetic in many ways though a science fiction work. I often think about it as I see grass and crops struggling. Give it a look sometime. I’m going to try and find a copy somewhere.
We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub.
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Gardeners of Twtd - top tip on 16:17 - Apr 24 with 1079 views
There is a lot of truth in this chap. Bloke I work for is obsessed with his lawn. Spends a fortune on lawn treatments and always ends up with a vast brown tundra looking area by August. The key to keeping the moss manageable and a degree of greenery is not to cut it to within an inch of its life all year.
I used to live next door to a man who was so obsessed with having a perfect lawn he’d cut it most days with a push mower.
He wouldn’t let anyone,not his wife or children on it,only on special occasions as a treat sort of thing
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