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boing wrote:
Hello, Looking for some advice, for a few years now I have been trying to lay a decent lawn with little success. The area has been for a very long time home to all sorts of angry looking weeds and although I have cleared them and used all sorts of toxic stuff, they still come back. I don't need advice on how to get rid of them I've had all sorts from experts up and down the country in 3 years. Now I am just fedup and want to try something I've invented myself so here's the question (at long last you say); I'm not a gardner but I have used that black cloth covering stuff to block out weeds around my boarders and that seems to work well. My plan for the lawn is to dig it up (again) and lay some of the black covering cloth down. Then I plan to put the turf right on top. The idea being while the weeds can't get up the grass roots should be able to dig down. I'm sure I'm have to water it very well for a while. Will it work ? Can anyone help ? I really wouldn't bother. I'd say, ask yourself if you really want a 100% grass lawn. Then ask why. What's it for? Putting green? Bowls? Winning a competition? You mention none of these, so I assume you're a normal human being. Just mow it twice a week, and enjoy life. If a particular weed happens to get up your nose now and then, dig the blighter out when you happen to feel like it. The turf-on-landscape-fabric idea might work, but it will never produce a fully self-sustaining lawn, which is obviously what you want and need as you can't get the normal treatments to work. The problem will be, as you say, that it will need watering -- and feeding -- far too often, because the grass roots won't be able to get below the membrane in sufficient numbers. And it probably wouldn't drain well in bad weather. It'll upset the moles a bit, though! Mike. |
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