"anita" wrote in message
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Neither is best it depends how much work you want to do, and also how
long
you can keep people off it for and how much you want to spend.
Obviously
newly sown grass will be fragile for a longer period than turf, but it
will
be a lot cheaper, but harder work (both in preparation and also keeping
the
kids off it for longer). I suppose you could always seed it in two
halves.

Turf is also less susceptible to bad weather after laying the lawn,
for
example a bad downpour just after sowing could mess things up but it
wont
affect turf as long as you dont walk on it.


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Thanks for the info
Just one more question
If i am putting lots of topsoil down to even the lawn out
do i have to take up the grass thats already there or just put the
topsoil down on top before puttimg the turf down[/color]

Dunno, I've never done that always layed turf on bare soil. A *guess* is
that you'd be much better off removing the old lawn, otherwise you could
have a problem with the turf needing to root through the old lawn, so
especially if it was dry the new turf might struggle.
Imagine the roots of the new grass having to fight their way down through
the original grass and then thatch and then(probably hard and compacted?)
soil......yep, I've convinced myself you should remove the old grass :-)

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