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lawn repair soil

Hello, I have a approx 110 square meter shady lawn that I need to repair.  It was turfed two years ago, I think fairly badly, and doesn't seem to have been watered through the summer.

It is patchy with 70% green, 30% dead.

The client is only renting, s

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Lawn advice

I'm not a lawn expert, but am trying to advise an elderly neighbour...can you help, or point me in the right direction?

The circle of grass was, until 2024 looked after by a lawn expert, he retired and someone else has taken it on. It got fairly parch

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Robot mowers and rabbits

Ideas please..

The garden I look after is mown by a couple of large very heavy robot mowers - they are generally my friends - they remove the bore of cutting the lawns which used to take 2 full days a fortnight with a large ride on and smaller mowers/

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Grass paint colourant

Made a blunder spot-treating some weeds in a lawn a couple of weeks back    not sure how I managed it but I've ended up with several brown circles roughly 2' across in the grass  Its possible I mixed up the 2 sprayers and ended up using Roundup inste

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Lawn Water Conserver

A question for those offering lawn treatments. Does anyone use a specific product, separate to their normal treatments, that's specifically used when we have long, dry periods? Can anyone recommend a good product? I imagine it would likely be a liqui

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Acelepryn

Evening 

has anyone used this insecticide for chafer grubs and or leather jackets, what was your experience with it like?

thanks

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Animals pulling up turfs

I recently laid a small 30sqm section of turf for a client only for several of the turfs to be pulled up by animals over night. Foxes or fiox cubs the most likely culprit based on the area. Badgers not really seen in the area. Muntjacs are seen, but

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Lawn Treatment

Hi All, 

I've been asked to offer lawn treatment for many of my customers. I've quoted £50 for anything below 300sqm which is probabaly a bit steep maybe? But that includes product itself, application and watering if needed. How do you price granular

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Toro Timemaster brake arm problem

Hi there,

I wonder if anyone else has had this problem with their Toro Timemaster. 

I took a short video (YouTube link below) of what's happening when the blade lever is engaged. The brake arm is shaking around like mad. It still cuts, but struggles if

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Liquid Iron Application

Hi all, looking to spray all our lawns with a liquid iron treatment fairly soon. For most lawns it'll be primarily to green them up and give them a little protection over the winter rather than to blacken all the moss off. This year i'd like us to tr

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Rushes

Can anyone suggest best treatment to kill off rushes, as per photo, from a lawn. I know that the main issue is drainage and poor soil, since this area was previously woodland which the householder paid somebody a load of money to convert to lawn. The

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Robot mower

Dear all, 

A client of mine would like to invest in a robot mower for his meadow grass of 5000sqm . Has anyone any ideas on a pro model, or market leader?? We have Belrobotics and Husqvarna locally that fit that seize but I was just wondering if there

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Top dressing with silver sand?

I've always found top dressing difficult to apply in the pursuit of a level lawn. 

It is as they  say an up-hill task

I've recently made a grass terrace , semi circular , about 4-5m in diameter, (with brick retaining  wall . 

In my haste I may not have

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Women in Lawn Care

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What did you think of GroundsFest?

Speaking as an exhibitor, I thought it was OK. First day was busy; second day a bit disappointing but still some good quality enquiries. we shall exhibit again next year.

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Lawn fungus ID

We have a client with a lawn we laid last autumn, which has struggled.  I went to se it the other day, and part of it had what looked to me like red thread, although there was no actual threads visible.  He hasn't fed this year, so I told him to feed

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Stihl fs361 reviews please

Hi all, 

 

Anybody own or have experience of using the Stihl fs361? My fs91 has packed up after a few years good service and I'm considering moving away from the 4 mix engines and also after a strimmer with as low vibrations as possible to try and save

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Spraying Iron sulphate in the rain?

Really need to spray some lawns that im a little late on doing but the forcast looks pretty dire.

Ive never sprayed iron in the rain / drizzle.  So is it a yay or nay?

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Turfing prep joining existing lawn

Hi, I’m new to the site, I have just finished day 1 of prepping for a 210sqm turfing job. The client had the rear half of his garden sectioned off for sheep who subsequently ate all of the lawn, left a pile of poo and died.The garden level was destro

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Concrete under lawn.

For four seasons I have been cutting a lawn on an as and when basis with the brief of just keeping it reasonably tidy. 

There is a patch in it which I always assumed is where the concrete mixer stood and was washed out when the house was built. 

This y

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