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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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kikuyu grass - anyone heard of it?

It's apparently a (fairly coarse) type of grass that's quite resilient to bitch spot/dog urine. No mention of it in a forum search so I thought i'd see if anyone had any experience. I expect it's so aggressive that it becomes a pest, and probably sho

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Square metre prices for laying synthetic lawn and other help please.

Hello, I've just been asked to price per sqm for top quality artificial lawn for an existing client. I've done artificial lawns in the past, but not recently, and was wondering if anyone could:
1) give me a standard going rate/s for per square metre,

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Bronze, silver and gold packages

I seem to have a mind freeze at the moment...

I'm looking to sell different lawn care packages

i.e.
Bronze
Silver
Gold

But I would like different wording than the run of the mill above.

I can't seem to dream any up that don't sound cheesy, any ideas?

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Green Lawnager from Agrovista

I used about 10 x 1 Ltr bottles of this lawn dye last year.
I find it very useful to give an instant impact while the Cheleated iron and other lawn feeds do their job. I also find the dye useful to reduce the effect of applying selective herbicide to

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levelling a playing field

Hi all 

I have had a request in from a local school that have an uneven playing field that they would like me to level and seed(next spring).

I have spoken to the site manager and originally they wanted the existing grass removed and the ground levelle

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Lawn to astro turf dividing

Hi

I can't seem to figure out, how to finish the lawn as it meets the astro turf on an area which is for the kids and the lawn is shaded by trees and doesn't last.

Any suggestions?

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Lawn Edging

Creating beds and borders, along with planting trees is something I do a lot of. As the main planting season is now upon us, my thoughts are again turning to the best way to edge the boundary between lawn and planting area. 

Depending on the budget of

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mechanical moss removal on hard surfaces

After somewhat disappointing results with chemical products and a substantial amount of hard  earned money spent on them, i was wondering if anyone was using mechanical methods of moss removal on hard surfaces. 

I know scraping works well with thick m

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