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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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Carex in lawn, how to treat?

Hi all,

I've started a contract where they have a large lawn with serious drinage issues. Land drains are going in soon, and I'll be working on getting the lawn renovated.

Apart from lots of clover and buttercups, and very little grass, there is masses

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People's opinions on Rolawn Medallion

I took delivery of 120 metres of the stuff today from a company who i'll name once i've spoken to them tomorrow to see what they are going to do about the problems with it.

i have 12 turf that i can't possibly lay and a whole bunch of others with bits

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Lawn query

A customer recently emailed me concerning her lawn (about 20mx20m) , she has a well known lawn care franchise doing there thing but is not overly happy with the results and is considering telling them where to go.She has asked me for advice about the

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LARGE TURFING JOB....NEARLY FINISHED....150,000m2

HYDE PARK....

LOOKING GOOD

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The ultimate Lawnmower

Got my lawnmowers out today at home. Just sit back with a beer and watch. Best thing is they are completely eco friendly and fertilise as they go.

And look at this lawn tractor - it's a John Deere. Fits in the trailer real easy and gets easily in to a

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Marsh Lawn

Hi folks,

I was wondering what suggestions I could get towards a lawn that is soaking underneath. I have a customer in a new build house, built on a once field. the ground is absolutely sodden. I used my fork to prong holes in it today to hopefully le

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Artificial Grass

I see from the search function quite a few businesses offer artificial grass.

I have been thinking about this for quite a while but wandered how other members find the demand?

I was thinking about this on a fairly big scale in terms of covering a wide

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Have you started treating lawns yet?

Just wondering whether anyone has started treating lawns yet - weed, feed etc? I haven't as i think it is far too cold - currently we have snow on the ground and as i type this it is snowing. I have seen GT vans about but that doesn't surprise me. I'

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A job well done - Scarifying ?

Take a look at this picture - is that a good job well done !

Scarified down to 25mm.

Would love to be able to do that so neat:

Picture courtesy of Fine Turf Services via Twitter @FineTurfServ

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Ive heard some cra., then I heard this...

All,

At work at present (at a fire station in London) and the contractor arrives to do the lawns, weed spraying etc, i notice he's strimming all the lawn, and area approx 8mx10m, only small albeit.

So I go out the front and have a chat, ask the questio

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How to deal with damage to a clients lawn?

Due to the wet weather we have had recently a couple of my turfing jobs in Bristol have resulted in the clients lawn taking a bit of a battering. To some extent this is unavoidable but I wanted to ask, in your experience, what clients expectations ar

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Have you started laying (turf) yet?

Returning from a pruning job in rural Cheshire we passed a tipper van loaded with turf
obviously intending to put down tomorrow,overnight forecasts for the next few days minus 1 at best,surely while the rest of us are pondering the first cut of the

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