"Neil" wrote in message
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Seeing all the lawn ween and feed products in the stores, I decided (and
it was a close thing) to buy Evergreen Complete and their Easy distributor
(on wheels) to distribute accurately.

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Now the lawn is looking badly scorched around some edges and variably
scorched in other areas.

Can't help you much with the scorching I'm afraid, but I had a similar
problem last year.... I went and bought a £30 sack of Evergreen and applied
it to my lawn last summer ( I have about 800 sq. m) and it did about half of
it. The lawn ended up looking very badly scorched and took ages to recover.
I gave up on treating the rest of it.

It would have cost me about £60 in chemicals to do the whole lot, plus quite
a bit of time.

I got a flyer through the door in late summer for "Green Thumb" lawn care
services and gave them a call. They came around and quoted me £63 a time for
them to do the lawn - a four times a year programme. Feeling somewhat
ashamed with my own results, I took them up on their offer and they applied
their own fertiliser and weedkiller in the autumn, in the winter and once a
month or so ago. I have to say that the reults have been excellent.

My lawn had lots of moss, selfheal and thistles in it last year - this year
it looks excellent, is lush and green and has no moss or weeds at all.

All in all, I'm very impressed indeed.

The way I look at it, the cost of their service is almost the same as I
would pay for the chemicals anyway. I end up paying more than if I was
applying the stuff myself as I would probably only feed and weed twice a
year and they do it 4 times, but the results certainly speak for themselves
and it's one task out of the way.

In case anyone is interested:

www.greenthumb.co.uk