"pied piper" wrote in message
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"Annabel" wrote in message
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Paul

I, like you am on London clay. How do you aerate your lawn, I
can
either
not get a fork in or cannot get it out without a struggle. I
have a
hollow tine aerator which I bought at a local boot fair and its
going
back to see if some other sucker wants it !!!!

You mention laughing about your patio, do you think anyone else
out
there is as sad as me ---- I mow my "patio".


Bell


water your lawn for few hours a day then hollow tine remove the
cores
dress with a sandy soil


When you say "remove the cores", to me that means "try to get all of
the
core out of each tine"

Bell


the core push out of each tine as you pust it back into the ground i
mean
remove the cores from your lawn


What I am saying is that the ground (clay) is such that the cores do not
come out of the tines with the ground being so sticky/hard.