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messy lawn!!!
recently moved into our new home and the garden is a mess!!! the previous owner laid cheap grass seed on VERY uneven ground and we now have a garden full of divots, holes and weeds and is quite established. without ripping it all up and starting again by laying new turf (expense!!) what are our options for the quickest and easiest solution for a lush lawn!!!???!!!
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"ostano" wrote in message news recently moved into our new home and the garden is a mess!!! the previous owner laid cheap grass seed on VERY uneven ground and we now have a garden full of divots, holes and weeds and is quite established. without ripping it all up and starting again by laying new turf (expense!!) what are our options for the quickest and easiest solution for a lush lawn!!!???!!! -- ostano How do u know he used cheap grass seed? |
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"pied piper" wrote: recently moved into our new home and the garden is a mess!!! the previous owner laid cheap grass seed on VERY uneven ground and we now have a garden full of divots, holes and weeds and is quite established. without ripping it all up and starting again by laying new turf (expense!!) what are our options for the quickest and easiest solution for a lush lawn!!!???!!! How do u know he used cheap grass seed? My 2p: (1) perseverance (2) regular mowing (3) daily attention. Oh -- and chuck more seed at it: you can now buy "Lawn in a bucket" from places like B&Q, made by the great pbi company - I've used their stuff for decades. In defence of the previous owner (though this may not apply in your case): This year, I set about making a lawn in the brand new "garden" of a house my son was renting. Honestly: I have never seen "soil" like this: when it was not like concrete, it was like lumpy HEAVY porridge (because of all the rain we were having and the NON-EXISTENT drainage). It was also completely sterile: not a single worm, and just deep-rooted docks for weeds. I put hours of heavy labour into that tiny patch (25 sq metres), digging it deep, all over three times, adding a ton of sharp sand, trying to level it, and finally seeding it (with a lawn in a bucket). Again partly due to the awful weather we've had, it took ages to sprout, but now, about 9 months after I started, it is starting to look like a lawn [and my son is about to move out!]. I'd love to have been in the position you're in, i.e. to be able to go out every day and check it over, water it where needed, pull out nefarious weeds, sprinkle nice soil over depressions, re-seed in patches, rake it, cut it (but I live 20 miles away so I've only done all this every other week, and my son, as you have guessed, is shall we say not interested.) As you can see, I like lawns. Finally I'll remind you of the old gardener's tip: the more regularly you cut it, the better it will look. (But you have to feed and water too -- the bowling greens in the park don't just get cut every day -- they're fed and watered when they need it too.) Lucky you: good luck John |
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ostano wrote:
recently moved into our new home and the garden is a mess!!! the previous owner laid cheap grass seed on VERY uneven ground and we now have a garden full of divots, holes and weeds and is quite established. without ripping it all up and starting again by laying new turf (expense!!) what are our options for the quickest and easiest solution for a lush lawn!!!???!!! Adding to what John said, the previous owner may not be wholly to blame: if it was a new site, he may have thought he'd expended incredible effort in levelling it before sowing, only to discover a few months later that it had settled unevenly. Cheap seed is quite good enough for most people: it simply tends to have a high proportion of ryegrass, which is good and tough, but won't result in one of those story-book fine lawns. I'd just relax. Fill up the worst holes as suggested, weed and feed, mow twice a week if you can (no shorter than three quarters of an inch), and you'll be amazed what you've got by next spring. Whatever you do, don't get sucked in to spending too much money: with patience, you can have a good lawn for nothing. A lawn doesn't have to be perfectly flat, of course. I don't know how uneven yours is, but if it's very bad, chop any bumps off and use them to fill the hollows, reseeding the bare patches. (You don't have to do this all in the same year if it's really daunting.) Ideally, you lift the turf from these places before you do the engineering, and put it back afterwards; but it'll come out right in the end if you don't -- it'll look a bit manky in patches for a few months, that's all. Next year, if it turns out to be less level than you hoped, a light annual top-dressing of sand and loam will even it up soon enough. -- Mike. |
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