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10% Discount on Tracmaster's CAMON range for Landscape Juice Members

Tracmaster is delighted to offer Landscape Juice members a 10% discount on its CAMON range of landscape, groundcare and conservation machinery, including scarifiers, aerators and turf cutters.

See our website for more details: www.tracmaster.co.uk

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Cutting Hedge Artificial Grass

We have over the past 4 years seen allot of this Artificial Grass in London, Companies opening on a daily basis offering this plastic grass.

Cutting Hedge London has just ordered some samples from 12 different companies to compare the Artificial grass

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Question for the lawn care people

I've been asked by client too feed and top dress their lawn. Do I feed then top dress or top dress then feed.Any advise would be great

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striping lawns

Hi

I've never owned a roller mower due to the type of work we have, mainly commercial grounds.
I have a private contract which I have been aske dto start striping in preperation for a wedding venue.
The lawn is 1.4 acres and un-even so I'm slightly co

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Aerator purchase.

Hi

I'm looking to buy an aerator this winter. I know you can hire then for £90 per week, but I use them that often I can justify buying one.

Reviews on aerators are few and far between on the internet...

My budget is £3000.

I had hired the Camon LA20 and

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Fairy ring treatment?

My father in law has within the last year or two become quite keen on his lawn. It had been very dry and neglected and he now waters like crazy and has green thumb on the case.

It has been aerated scarified and fed with their usually recipes.

It has de

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Scarifying - When to apply the iron?

Hi

Before I scarify I apply soluble iron 2 weeks before hand, i know some of the franchises scarify first then apply the iron after the clean up so it's one visit...

Just curious what way others work it?

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Artificial Lawns - Word of warning for all you who do garden maintenance

Just thought id post this so hopefully it may avoid someone making this mistake and possibly save them some money! We recently installed a large artificial lawn on a project. A few weeks later the hedges at the rear of the property were cut back by s

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Dry patch/fairy liquid ??

Was at a clients garden this week, and we were discussing the lawns dry patch problem, he told me a friend of his has told him to pour washing up liquid mixed with water over the effected area,s any thoughts of this technique ??

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My love affair with the great British lawn: Other nations mock our obsession with grass

By my wristwatch it was 3.03am one night last week when the first fat rain fell. Plop, drop, plop. Woken by the noise, I rushed to the bedroom window to gawp at my poor, parched lawn.
In the middle of the night this was plainly a ridiculous thing to

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Spiker Aerator - any experience?

Spiker Aerators, I have the option to buy one at the moment, and was wondering if anyone has any experience of them,?

Are they as good as solid tining? If not I Will pass, but if so, the wider working width would be a great time saver for me.
I assum

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UMAXX Lawn Feed

Anyone use UMAXX lawn feeds?

Am thinking of giving them ago but have heard good and bad things?

Any views gratefully received

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Renovating Centre Court at Wimbledon - a pictorial story

Here is the Facebook page of Wimbledon shwoing the groundstaff removing the turf from centre and No1 court.

See all photos here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151587713983732.1073741863.15690358731&type=1

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Lawn weed

Hi guys, I have a problem weed in a clients lawn that Is not touched by weed feed and moss kill granular treatment and also immune to verdone. The weed is covering approx 100m2 and is spreading. I have a picture and any help would be great on identit

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artificial grass companies - how honest are they? how low will they stoop to get work?

here's a new one for you,
the director no less, of a well known artificial grass company came to provide samples of their wares for a customer who's project i'm in the middle of working on - these were meant to have been posted weeks ago, but a phon

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Top Gear lawn mower hits 100mph on test track

Remember the 130mph lawn mower being built by Honda for Top Gear? Well it has taken to the test track.

The BBC reports that the machine broke 100mph on the back straight of the Circuit de Charade testing course in France.

The team building the machin

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none scorch lawn feed

Hello one and all
I am looking to use a none scorch lawn feed due to potently having a summer time
I am after a balenced feed with trace elements if that is possable.
Any recommendations and suppliers who offer trade price bought by the pallet would b

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Lawn alternatives

Hi everyone, hope the summer is being kind for everyone throughout the UK. I've had a nightmare! 4 weeks ago, at home, not at work, accidentally cut my arm very badly, slicing through the muscle and severing the tendons and yes, right arm and yes I'm

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Newly laid lawn ??

Hi all, been to price a lawn cutting job today, on arrival it's just been laid on Saturday, as I was walking over it in certain places my boots were sinking about an inch,so peeled back the turf to find about 2 inch of fresh topsoil , question is wil

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New lawn problems

"Evening All, first post so bare with me.I laid a lawn in November and just been contacted by the customer.We cleared shrubs gravel and anything else then put down topsoil.and turf. Now look at it!They have 2 dogs (not bitches) and use "Dog…"

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