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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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Lawn treatment in Hawkhurst East Sussex

Customer of mine has quite a bit of lawn..to me looks compacted in places, fairly weed free etc  but would like to make things better for the new season anyone interested please contact me and I will liase and forward details...

Cheers

Mark 

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Housing development

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quoting for a school playing field

Hi all

I have been asked by a local school to quote for cutting the grass on the school sports field as they have just terminated their contract with a large facility service company due to poor service levels and shoddy work.

This is something I have

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What could this be?

This is a lawn that I look after, the last feed was a 4 month fertiliser treatment back in April/May and a treatment with a weed killer at the end of June. (Re-Act)

I had turned up this evening to do an Autumn feed... 

http://pure-bedlam.co.uk/images/s

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Were do you buy your grass seed from ?

Hi guys i am currently carrying out alot of lawn work on several large lawns and wondered were do you buy your grass seed from im looking at bags of 20kg at a time and lawn mixtures for different locations i.e full sun, shade, hard wearing and genera

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The physics of mowing the lawn, a superb read :

I love this article - maths meets mowing :-) Right up my street.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/optimal-lawn-mowing-patterns/

Thanks to Acacia Rentals for Tweeting this to me earlier this week..

Now...can this be embedded into LiberRate fo

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What has happend @ Rolawn....

We have been useing Rolawn medalion turf for the last 10 years and i have to say that i will never use them again. we orderd 300 sqm of medalion from london lawn company. had to collect it as there lorry would not get were the job was. we started to

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Rolawn quality

Has anyone experienced a drop in quality with Rolawn Medallion turf recently?  Just wondering if the wet weather in Yorkshire is causing problems. 

We had to get a second batch this week which is clearly nothing like the quality of the first. The loca

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Need advice on laying artificial grass

Need advice on laying fake grass.

What is the right way and whats a cheap way but still a good finish on laying artificial grass?

I heard a concrete base, 4'' think or..

Remove exciting lawn and lay sharp sand, wacker plate and compress the sand and the

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Laying Lawn over gravel? Good practice?

Hello all ,
I have a client, whose garden is currently a gravel garden - approx 20 mm gravel all over, with membrane under that. They no longer like the gravel area and would like to bring some lawn  back into the garden.

I have designed a new lawn ar

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Grasscare professionals needed in GU area

Is there anyone hiding on here that provides a quality regular grasscare service in the GU1/2/3 and surrounds area (Guildford/ Woking - Surrey) - i've now had 3 clients asking this season with lawns of various sizes and conditions, but that want regu

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Lawn Diseases

I am having terrible trouble with lawn diseases in one of my lawns.

It started with red thread, has had bouts of fusarium and now has blooming fairy rings!!! I dont understand it, I do everything I possibly can to have the best lawn from feeding to sc

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