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Lawn weed and feed

Hello everyone. Hope your all coping with all this rain.Just need some recommendations please for a decent weed and feed for lawns. Got a lot of customers that need scarification on their lawns and I need a good treatment to apply to kill the moss/we

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Red thread

I realise this has probably been asked about before in other discussions, but if you could help please it would be much appreciated ... my customers lawn had red thread this time last year ... a well known lawn treatment company came and " dealt " wi

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Power rake hire - SE London

Hi everyone.

I'm desperately trying to get my mits on a power rake for a large turfing job.

Brandon tool hire can't help, as they have all of two - one's broken and the other is out on a long term. http://www.brandontoolhire.co.uk/en/rotavators-cultiva

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Football Pitches: Variations Across the Ocean

Given the start of Euro 2016 tonight, an insight into how we in Europe maintain football pitches compared with that in the US. Interesting commentary on the European preference of using walk behind mowers and our approach to using chemicals ( especi

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Agrigem's New Fungicide 'Emerald Turf'

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Lawn fertiliser of choice.......

After reading the thread about purchasing lawn fertiliser in bulk, I thought it would be interesting to know what others are using in relation to NPK and longevity and perhaps why. As stated in the other thread, the cheapest 25kg bag may not be, and

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Lawn Food Shelf Life

Can anybody help with this query please? In an effort to reduce costs I was thinking of buying a bulk amount of granulated slow release lawn fertilizer (6 x 25 kg bags). The problem is that it would maybe take a couple of years (or more) to use it al

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One for the lawn treatment guys...

Approx 80% of our garden maintenance work is mowing which for a self confessed lawn nut is great. As a consequence of this, we are regularly asked for lawn treatments which this year we are offering. Whilst I'm happy with our seasonal fertiliser choi

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Advice on dealing with garden gone wild

Hi. I was asked to bring this garden back under control recently. It is only about 20' x 30' but hadn't been touched for a couple of years. I strimmed to lower the grass to a more manageable height and moved hidden rockery and other buried treasures

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Weed seedlings in new grass seed area.

Hi everyone,Question for you all, I was asked to look at an area of a garden (prospective new client) and they have seeded a large area of lawn, but it looks like the top soil they have used was full of seedlings as they are growing in amongst the gr

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Creeping Cinquefoil

Hi, I've been to look at a lawn full of Creeping Cinquefoil, could any of the weed gurus advise whether MCPA / Mecoprop-P as in weed and feed granules would be effective on it please ?  Or if not, suggest something else grass friendly that might do t

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Yellowing of lawn

One of my customer's lawn is starting to go yellow in certain areas (see pic).  It has been fertilised and had weed control and otherwise looks quite healthy apart from the yellowing.

I suggested they put on their sprinkler to get some more moisture i

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Which lawn seed?

I've put down a lot of grass seed over the last month or so and it seems to be taking forever to germinate.

I'm aware that rainfall and soil temperature have a huge bearing on how quickly seed takes but does anyone recommend any particular seed that t

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Lawns do that ?

Great US infographic :

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Leicester City - I'm a fan; not of its football but its pitch

Now being a Chelsea FC fan, for me to take an interest in another team is very unusual :) but credit where credit's dues, as well as winning the Prem League Leicester City Footbal Club ground staff should get some kind of recogniton and award for the

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Going for the zebra look.......Friday fun....

Lovely stripy lawn....or is it? Take a look at the results of a homeowner applying some fertiliser....don't worry its a friend of ours and he has had some serious ribbing....

Anyone else have their own 'Classic Fails'...?

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Mowing recently laid turf.

Turf went down on the 7th of April and was wondering if it's still too soon to cut?Also i think I can see yellow leaves sprouting from the turf should I be feeding the grass with a nitrogen feed?

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Yellow patches through grass.

Hi was wondering what would be the best way to deal with the yellow patches throughout the grass?http://imgur.com/WfjwXwo

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Lawn damage

Laid a new lawn recently and a patch of it has started to turn yellow. The customer informs me that the patch is in the same area as their bitch used to wee in. Any solutions to this other than digging the soil out and starting again.?

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Picking up hollow tines after aeration

Anybody have any ingenious ways for collecting hollow tines after aerating a lawn?

I currently blow and rake them up but seems to take forever particularly if they are damp.

Be interested in hearing how other members do it?

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