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Scarifiers

Any views on the best scarifyer on the market  please for small to med lawns thanks 

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Winter mowing.

I have a customer, elderly, who family took over the garden after i had done it for 3 years to help with some cash for university. I got a distressed call from the lady asking me to mow the lawn. Whilst i wouldn't normally take a mower out till sprin

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Ethical question: turf or grass seed, what is best?

If I wanted to create a new lawn in my own garden (or a client's) I'd have no qualms about using grass seed every single time as I know I can achieve the same results, if not better, than I could with imported turf.

With time on my side, grass seed a

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Leatherjackets and Badgers

Hi guys, I had a phone call from one of my customers today saying that he has had trouble with badgers lifting the turf on his lawn. I'm going to have a look at the lawn tomorrow but my first thought is that there after leatherjackets?, however, i'm

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Live on Turf Grass

Watch this: http://www.landscapejuicenetwork.com/profiles/blogs/great-video-about-turf-1 Originally posted in this blog, it's truely a lesson. Forget the amercanism's and just suck in the facts and figures. We are lucky to all work in someway with su

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information on turf disease fusarium

Its that time of year where turf diseases start to show up more and its finding different ways of dealing with them,

The most common one is fusarium i have written some information on this disease.

 

Probably the most common and damaging disease of fine

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Lawn edging

Doing a job at the moment that needs lawn edging but really do not like smart edge as too difficult and messy to deal with.  Has anyone got any idea about lite edge and how good it is.  Looked at Everedge and need to make a profit on lawn edging 

 

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Lawn edging

Doing a job at the moment that needs lawn edging but really do not like smart edge as too difficult and messy to deal with.  Has anyone got any idea about lite edge and how good it is.  Ever edge too expensive and need to make a profit on lawn edging

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Equipment hire seeding large lawn

Well the title says it all I need to seed a large area of both lawn seed and wildflower meadow mix.

I am looking for someone in the Norfolk area to hire a cultipack stone burier and seeder from.

Although if you can suggest something along those lines i

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Bad lawn

We laid a lawn 4 months ago for a client, using a regular turf supplier. The area (circa 100sqm) that the lawn was laid on was dug over with a digger a couple of weeks before the lawn was laid and

2 lorry loads of topsoil was bought in and raked over

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Heavy Clay soil, drainage problem

 

I Have a garden that has a drainage problem at the moment, the garden is landlocked on all sides, 2 sides where the garden level is slightly higher than the garden in question.

 

The soil is very heavy clay in the most, and some ash type soil.

 

The gar

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Autumn winter lawn feed cost, suppliers and spreaders

Today I have been getting prices for my autumn lawn feed, quite a few suppliers have not got any to stock yet, others say give me your details we will get back to you within the hour, no ring back after 4 hours.

Best I have managed is Rigby Taylor own

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Rolawn say turf prices to rise

Rowlawn recently announced that turf prices will rise due to increased delivery and material costs.

Have Rolawn made this statement without consultation with the wider turf suppliers? A touch or mindset management perhaps?

There are many more quali

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One for the lawn experts

We have an area of 45m2 to re turf. It was previously laid by builders on who added about 25mm of 'top soil' onto the poor quality soil/clay below. Over the years the lawn has settled and needs to raised by about 50 - 75mm all over.

The area is in a c

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help please with a yellowing lawn

So I got a late call this evening thats depressed me.

 

I did a lot of work for a guy back in may, clearance, demolition of a bomb shelter, and laying a lawn.

 

now he called and said that the lawn is gone patchy and dying in places.it turns out he didnt

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Organic lawn fertilisers

Evening.  Has anyone ever applied chicken manure pellets or blood, fish and bone meal to lawns? I have looked into it and it seems it can be done. I'm trying to go organic as much as possible and this is one treatment that could be effective.

 

If it

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What do you know about moles rabbits and lawns?

I hope that some of you at least know some and can assist with thweir knoledge.

 

I got a phone call yesterday with an order of 100 metres lawn edging, the gentelman said that he orderd my product about a year ago, needed more but just rememberd to ord

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Lawn Renovation

Went to see a lawn today that was in a shocking state. The customer had started to try and sort it out himself in the spring but gave up after ½ an hour of scarifying !

The lawn is approx 500m2 and is jam packed full of moss, thatch and weeds. Where

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recommended slow release lawn fertiliser?

Anyone used or is using Evolution fertiliser before, specifically the slow release product?

I have approx 1500 sqmtrs to treat over 2 sites and the above appears to be good value for the coverage provided and the fact it should last for 5 months once

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long grass

Would like some opinions/advice on cutting a large lawn/s (tot half acre) which have been left to grow (shut down nursing home), they have asked me to get the grass cut to make it look neat for september.

the grass is long 12" (has not been cut this y

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