Why is their grass greener?

[subaqua]

Burns it.

only directly underneath it . round the sides its lush and long

 

[classic33]

Food Dye!

Worked in '95.

 

[Dayvo]

@Sandra6

The first pic is of a small lawn that we cut with a rotary mower. I took the pic about 2 weeks ago. The mower has a roller on it. Just at the left edge of the bench upright is a mystery spillage.....
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This next pic is of New Court lawn, again a couple of weeks ago. This was the first cut with the cylinder mower blades lowered slightly. We go down maybe a couple of mm for a few months

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This next pic is the same lawn from a different angle. It's cut a bit shorter(some time last summer)

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So, in the next few weeks I'll apply lawn sand, then a week later I'll scarify. This will remove any moss and thatch (dead grass). The lawn will look like crap for about a month.

In the last pic, just to the left of the left hand arch there has been a 1metre deep test pit dug. In august the lawn above will have a diagonal trench dug for new power cables as there will be a kitchen refit. The temp kitchen goes on New Court lawn in December for a year.

The first picture- that garden will be dismantled in late Sept and becomes a builders compound for 18 months.

By Sept '19 all the lawns and gardens will be reinstated. It might be done by me if I'm still there!

So why am I bothering scarifying etc....? I have an apprentice that needs to learn the ropes, otherwise I may not have bothered!

Very nice lawns, D123.

We have a new machine at work which injects air into the ground at two different depths: 6" and 12".

The results are incredible after just a few days and makes good lawns/greens/tees considerably better.

 

[Dave 123]

@Dayvo I have a tool that produces hot air. He's called Tim. I wonder if I stuck his head 6" in the ground and squeezed his belly....?!?!?

 

[keithmac]

Our lawn was lovely the first year I laid it, ever since it's been a losing battle with the dandelions.

I spent 3 hours once with a Fiska (sp?) weedpuller and filled a green wheelie bin half full with dandelions, don't know why I bothered as a week later the little b@stards were back again!.

I just mow it now and not look too closely at it..

 

[craigwend]

I've just cut the grass on the front tonight, well I say grass - it was mainly moss - though green moss

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

My front garden is about 90% moss, 10% weeds. Once the weeds are dealt with and the moss cut it looks ok - quite springy.

The back garden is a disaster. When the house was built 8 years ago, the builders just rolled the rubble and put turf on top. No top soil, no levelling. I have weeds, moss, grass, dips, hollows and bare patches. The answer I suppose is to dig it all out, put top soil in and re-turf.

But, did I mention we have three cats?

 

[Sandra6]

My front garden is about 90% moss, 10% weeds. Once the weeds are dealt with and the moss cut it looks ok - quite springy.

The back garden is a disaster. When the house was built 8 years ago, the builders just rolled the rubble and put turf on top. No top soil, no levelling. I have weeds, moss, grass, dips, hollows and bare patches. The answer I suppose is to dig it all out, put top soil in and re-turf.

But, did I mention we have three cats?

I think the same builders were responsible for ours! I tried to dig a bed last year only to discover it was only about 3 inches deep to start with!

 

[keithmac]

I dug/ raked and separated around 20 buliders buckets of ruble out of our back garden before laying the grass.

It's still lumpy as for some unknown reason every winter the squirrels bury nuts in it..