In article , Jonathan
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I need lawn feed/moss killer type stuff. LOTS of it. About 400 m/sq of lawn
of it!
Bought a box of stuff from Tesco with a nice built in spreader, does 50
m/sq, costs
£6-ish.
Just going to re-fill that. As all the DIY superstores NEVER answer the
phone, I was just wondering if anyone saw any on their travels...

BTW, the lawn is about 80% moss, if anyone knows anything particularly good
for that level of mossyness.

That suggests poor drainage. Moss isn't particularly good at competing
with grass except when the conditions are poor for the grass and good
for the moss. You may remove all the moss, but I think you'll find it'll
simply come back.


As I'm new to this whole gardening lark, I'd also like to know where's the
kind of place I can hire a rotorvator to turn a chunk of lawn into a veggie
patch (tried a bit of it and it killed my back, so I reckon it'd be worth it
if it meant I could still go to work!)

Any of the standard tool hire shops.
But don't simply rotavate the whole thing, else you'll simply be
spreading grass roots throughout, and then you'll be forever weeding
grass from the veg bed. Start by stripping off the turf. Then you can
either dig the whole bed and bury the turves face down about a foot
down, where they will rot and provide humus for the bed, or stack them
in a heap face down and wait for them to rot, and spread them as compost
over the bed a year or so down the line.


Oh, and what vegetable/fruit things should I be planting within the next
week?

Broad beans. Nearly everything else can wait till April/May

Told you I was new to all this! Going to get a book, but probably need
to get planting with some urgency if I'm going to get anything from this
summer.

Don't be too much in a rush. Getting a good garden going takes time.
Regard this year as an experimental year


--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"