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Advice please, level and prepare for a healthy lawn
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I'm hoping for a little advice, i'm new to gardening as I have only owned a garden since yesterday, well it is currently a paddock not yet a garden. It is over grown with weeds about three foot high, there isn't really any grass at all, it is also uneven all over and bumpy. I would like to end up with a healthy even lawn. With little to no experience I do not want to make silly mistakes at this stage. In the futre I wold like to create a beautiful garden but for now I'd just love a lawn. Any advice would be much appreciated, thank you for taking the time to read this. sophie |
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Advice please, level and prepare for a healthy lawn
"slqdqjbq" wrote in message ... Hi I'm hoping for a little advice, i'm new to gardening as I have only owned a garden since yesterday, well it is currently a paddock not yet a garden. It is over grown with weeds about three foot high, there isn't really any grass at all, it is also uneven all over and bumpy. I would like to end up with a healthy even lawn. With little to no experience I do not want to make silly mistakes at this stage. In the futre I wold like to create a beautiful garden but for now I'd just love a lawn. Any advice would be much appreciated, thank you for taking the time to read this. sophie -- For a level lawn seeding is best but you can turf aswell rotovate level with some topsoil then turf or seed |
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Advice please, level and prepare for a healthy lawn
Sophie wrote via gardenbanter.co.uk... I'm hoping for a little advice, i'm new to gardening as I have only owned a garden since yesterday, well it is currently a paddock not yet a garden. It is over grown with weeds about three foot high, there isn't really any grass at all, it is also uneven all over and bumpy. I would like to end up with a healthy even lawn. With little to no experience I do not want to make silly mistakes at this stage. In the futre I wold like to create a beautiful garden but for now I'd just love a lawn. Any advice would be much appreciated, thank you for taking the time to read this. Welcome to this Newsgroup. Personally I would spray with Glyphosate weedkiller (Roundup) to kill all the grass and weeds, may take two applications and the plants need to be actually growing with green leaves for it to work. So you may be well to wait until next spring. Look at your soil, dig into it, is it clay and very wet/water retentive if so you will need to rotovate in a lot of sand to open it up and improve drainage. If it's very sandy then some good loam may be a good idea. Then I would rotovate the whole lot going over it time and time again to break up any clods and get a fine tilth. Then rake flat, heal all over (walk on you heals or roller) leave it to settle and rake again, walk/roller again and rake again, etc, etc until it's flat and firm. Then seed it with a good lawn seed, there are lots of different types of lawn seed so you need to decide if you want lush but tender grass or hard wearing grass for kids to play on. Doing the preparation well is the key to a good lawn, don't bother or get it wrong and you will always have trouble. That holds for seed or turf. You then need a good lawnmower, a cylinder mower (kept sharp) is the only sort for a good lawn, rotary mowers are never as good. -- Regards Bob Hobden W.of London. UK |
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Advice please, level and prepare for a healthy lawn
slqdqjbq wrote:
Hi I'm hoping for a little advice, i'm new to gardening as I have only owned a garden since yesterday, well it is currently a paddock not yet a garden. It is over grown with weeds about three foot high, there isn't really any grass at all, it is also uneven all over and bumpy. I would like to end up with a healthy even lawn. With little to no experience I do not want to make silly mistakes at this stage. In the futre I wold like to create a beautiful garden but for now I'd just love a lawn. Any advice would be much appreciated, thank you for taking the time to read this. sophie You don't say how big it is. And you might as well have the odd flower border or kitchen garden near the house all grass is so boring. It is a bit late now to do anything effective. Best bet is to wait until spring when the first new growth shows (and you might well find the garden contains some spring bulbs you want to save) and then hit everything you don't want with glyphosate and wait 2-3 weeks until everything is tinder dry. Then clear the debris away from fences and torch it keeping a spade and bucket of water handy in case things get out of hand. I have cleared several overgrown wildernesses this way. This kills all but the most persistent weeds and most of their seeds. then you are down to rotovating the soil and taking out any big roots of bramble, groundelder or nettle that you find. Level and if necessary mix in some peat (or substitute) and sand into the top layer and reseed with the sort of grass you want to have (probably something moderately robust). Then leave it to grow undisturbed for a few weeks. Keep a bit of extra seed back for filling bare patches - you are unlikely to get an even spread first time even with a spreader. And different seed mixes will look different - even some that are nominally the same mix! If there are many perennial weeds you might have to let them regrow for a few weeks and then hit it again with glyphosate. Regards, Martin Brown |
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