On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 23:19:31 +0000, boing wrote:
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No one has said they have seen it fail and I don't mind normal
everyday weeds in the lawn.

But I DID say in a previous post, I've seen it fail, very quickly and
at a spectacular cost (=A3500+) for the first lawn.

This happened to a work colleague of mine who got a cowboy firm to
turf 4 lawns, these cowboys did exactly what you propose to do and
laid black weed blocker before laying the turf.

It survived the summer of that year, got completely waterlogged
through the winter and only one strip of grass recovered the following
season the rest was just yellow.

Because he knew I was a keen gardener he ask me to take a look. Which
I did. On inspection I noticed black material around some of the edges
of the lawn and with a bit of help I lifted these and discovered the
problem.

I offered to help him take it all up and relay a new lawns, this took
2 weekends.

We discovered where the grass was still green an growing well was
where the "cowboys" had run out of weed blocker material.

It cost my colleague a further =A3350 and 4 hard days work.

But his lawn looks spectacular now.



Regards Jeff.

www.astrecks.co.uk

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