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[Tin Pot]

BandQs Finest Ready To Use Grout is about half he price, so I’ll give that a whirl.

https://www.diy.com/departments/sika-ready-to-use-grout-15kg-tub/35727_BQ.prd

Think I’ve got some mortar in a tub somewhere too.

 

[Tin Pot]

[QUOTE 5337136, member: 9609"]I have been removing some of the patio slabs and in the red circle area I'm going to do grass. thing is it is deep hardcore, how much do I need to remove? all of it, or just down to a certain depth, how deep does the soil need to be for grass.
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Iirc grass roots only go down about six inches.

 

[Tin Pot]

It’s too hot to garden. I did about an hour watering and stuck few new dahlias in. Took a ninety minute break. BBQ d my brunch. Took another ninety minute break....yeah. Maybe at night.

 

[Mrs M]

Anyone else got a hornet invasion today?
Loads of them flying about.
All over the washing this morning, Mr M was plagued by them on the golf course and Thomas (cat) tried to get into the house earlier with several wee “passengers” on his back.
Luckily I never ate any on my early morning toddle
Never seen so many of them before!

 

[Tin Pot]

Anyone else got a hornet invasion today?
Loads of them flying about.
All over the washing this morning, Mr M was plagued by them on the golf course and Thomas (cat) tried to get into the house earlier with several wee “passengers” on his back.
Luckily I never ate any on my early morning toddle
Never seen so many of them before!

Wow. No, that’s not good.

 

[PaulSB]

Iirc grass roots only go down about six inches.

If that. A turf grower only removes at most one inch when cutting turf for sale. I don’t know but doubt grass roots extend more than three inches below the surface and probably only two.

 

[Dave 123]

@User9609
It’s a bit of a conundrum..... you could probably get away with going down 6 inches and then put some topsoil down. But if there is compaction under there then the new grass is likely to show signs of stress quicker than the existing grass.

If you take out a good 1.5-2ft your problem may be getting the soil to settle at the same level as the existing grass without the new stuff sinking.

I’d go deeper.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

Having worked with turf for years (with a grower) and having laid moonscapes of the stuff, I would say you ‘may’ get away with 6”. Mainly the roots exist in the first 8”.

But as you know it will establish on very thin, poor aggregate (like gravel driveways and worse). What you may get in that patch is a difference in colour due to differing nutrients, soil temperature and moistness. Lawn is a mix of grass types and some varieties of grass will be dominant in different conditions.

It is proabably more important the drainage is good. Otherwise with a bit of TLC I think you are good to go.

 

[Mrs M]

Watched this little worker today, (on a break from cleaning the windows)
She hovered round every flower, then climbed right inside to get what she wanted, quite relaxing to watch
She hung around for a while so I managed to get some pics.

 

[Dave 123]

2 weeks ago the window boxes at work took a pasting from the ongoing heat. I went in on the Monday and they were looking decidedly ropey! Anyway, daily drowning with a dilute liquid feed and daily dead heading has got them back on track nicely

I potted up my Polyanthus plugs last week, they’re growing away nicely. I’ll be ordering bulbs in a minute......

 

[Tin Pot]

Eggs for breakfast in the garden.

A half good job by some young lads cleaning the path.

Still starting to get some views I like:

I had hoped that, a year on, the change would be more dramatic but I’ve learned gardening isn’t like the makeover shows. Plus I kind of chickened out digging up the lawn.

 

[sheddy]

Can one grow dahlias in pots - and just overwinter the pots somewhere indoors (away from frost) ?

 

[User16390]

Can one grow dahlias in pots - and just overwinter the pots somewhere indoors (away from frost) ?

I am told you a smear of vaseline around the pot also works.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Can one grow dahlias in pots - and just overwinter the pots somewhere indoors (away from frost) ?

I've never had too much success overwintering dahlias, whichever method I've tried. I've done the lifting, drying out and burying in dry sawdust; leaving in pots; and leaving in the ground. The most successful method was to leave in the ground and cover with a thick mulch and most would survive, but a hard winter like the last gets more of them.

 

[Paulus]

Can one grow dahlias in pots - and just overwinter the pots somewhere indoors (away from frost) ?

Easy enough to grow in pots.
A bit harder to overwinter but put pots in a dry place away from frosts and be careful next spring as the slugs will devour the new shoots before you see them.