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Event: Weed & pest control workshop for professional practitioners Friday 28th February 2014

If all, or part, of your business is derived from applying chemical treatments to lawns or or turf then why not consider the upcoming Weed & pest control workshop?

LJN sponsors Progreen are hosting the event.

The event will cover all elements of the

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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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New turf completely flooded ?

Hey everyone I have a bit of a dilemma, I installed a new lawn and its have now flooded with the weather they have gone black and and are completely drenched most of the day even the wind is not having chance for them to dry out its been over a week

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Turfing as a stand alone company

Most of my work is lawn weed and feeding, however we get asked to do turfing on a regular basis.
On trolling the web I find loads of company's advertising turf for sale and you get landscapers & gardeners advertising that they put lawns down as part

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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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Water and a new Lawn

Are you aware of the amount of water needed for new turf to survive and grow in these hot conditions? is 6 litres of water per sq metre.
Do you know when you should apply water ? You can water turf in full sunlight only once it has been laid after th

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Bulb Planting in a lawn

I am bulb planting for a client. Approx 400-500 spring bulbs from under a tree across lawn into a border.

For the lawn part I am wondering if it's worth turf stripping (approx 2m2) or simply knuckling down with a hand held bulb planter. 

Any past exper

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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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Building a Jencks/Wilkie type landform...in miniature!

I am doing some research on the ins and outs of building a series of either; wide, circular terraced steps covered in lawn or a banked (440mm total height) mound also covered in lawn. The back will be planted up to/not seen so can be steeper.

With the

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Turf and plastic mesh

Hi everyone,

We have used the London Lawn Turf company to supply our turf for the last few years. They supply Rolawn. They have just informed us it is now grown with the plastic mesh inside (octogrids) We are not too keen on this as we were told, by a

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Lawn Shop - LJN Discount Code for Members

The Lawn Company, members of LJN and the people behind The Lawn Shop have set up a discount voucher code for Landscape Juice Network Members where they are giving 10% off the purchase of lawn treatment products until the end of June 2012.

The Lawn Com

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Cost of laying turf?

Would anyone be able to give me the cost of laying turf per square metre?

A potential client has asked me regarding a rental property in Ilkley, West Yorkshire which needs 60 sq m of lawn replacing. They'd like it done before selling the property next

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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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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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Turf in Yorkshire

Hi,I know there's plenty of turf discussions lying around but they all seem to concentrate on one thing or another, so here's mine -I know of a couple but there's no harm in asking if anyone knows any good turf suppliers for the Huddersfield/Holmfirt

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Hose Pipe Ban - Professional Exemptions

I saw today that the Turf Growers Association has recieved confirmation that United Utilities will stick by the proposed '28 Day' rule in the new Water Act that has been passed but not yet in force. It was stated that they expected other water region

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Turf laying

ive noticed a few 'completed photo's of turfed gardens' .jobs look very good , but i notice not all are laid alternately .ie one complete roll laid, then second is laid half-way along ,following on same pattern.etc etcdo you cut-in at the end of each

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OFFER - surplus turf in east mids

A slip of the fingers on our spreadsheet means we have over-ordered Q Lawn turf on a job to the tune of 48sq m. We can't use it anywhere else, so if anyone in the east midlands wants it and can pick it up, please give Anna a call on 07979 636578 toni

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Turf

what would you do to remedy the clients below lawn: Dont mention fake lawns !!,

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How much does it cost to lay turf per square metre?

I know that it's difficult to quote turf costs per metre without seeing the current condition of a site; from a contractors point of view, it's always frustrating when asked, by a potential client, what the cost might be..especially if their enquiry

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