Minicooper
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| posted on 20/8/07 at 06:46 PM |
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Lawns
I'm using complete lawn care, it seems to do the job but the lawn constantly needs redoing with the Complete Lawn stuff because of weeds/moss
etc returning and it working out pretty expensive.
Any better stuff for the job or is it something I'll have to suffer
Cheers
David
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mark chandler
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| posted on 20/8/07 at 06:54 PM |
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Get a scarifier something like this:
linky
thing
Then watch your lawn get ripped to shreds for the first few runs !
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blakep82
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| posted on 20/8/07 at 06:58 PM |
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or a pet duck  no moss, weeds, snails or slugs
need to spend every weekend washing you garden down though...
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Jon Ison
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| posted on 20/8/07 at 07:03 PM |
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This allways seems to work
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Minicooper
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| posted on 20/8/07 at 07:04 PM |
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I'm not at all sure about a duck! but I regularly scarify the lawns more than the twice a year they recommend
Cheers
David
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rusty nuts
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| posted on 20/8/07 at 07:07 PM |
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Concrete, works everytime.
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Simon
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| posted on 20/8/07 at 07:24 PM |
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Couple of million work might help
ATB
Simon
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britishtrident
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| posted on 20/8/07 at 07:39 PM |
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Odds are the real cause is you are cutting it too short.
Always Cut it one or two notches above the lowest setting.
Moss is best got rid of in early summer with lawn sand (ferrous shulphate) but it burns both moss and grass so looks unsightly for a while and you
have to try and apply it sparingly and evenly.
In the spring scratch the surface with a rake and ligthly top dress with a mixture of sand, peat based compost, lawn fertilliser and grass seed.
Apply spray on spot weeder to the weed & clover trouble spots, then let it grow a bit.
For best results cut it little but often --- do this and a lot of time you don't a grassbox.
Depending on weather conditions water after cutting, and occaisionally feed. NB Low cost Soluable feed applied through hose spray tends to get go
more evenly.
Autum feed & weed can be apllied in the few weeks.
If it has grown too much (ie when you come back from holiday) cut it in two stages with a day or two in between.
[Edited on 20/8/07 by britishtrident]
[Edited on 20/8/07 by britishtrident]
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coozer
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| posted on 20/8/07 at 08:43 PM |
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Put your hover on the highest setting so the grass is in command.
Get some geese and confine the mower and hard work to history.
They keep the scallywags away as well, much better than a Rottweiler!!
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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martyn_16v
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| posted on 20/8/07 at 09:03 PM |
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get a jack russell, you'll never have to mow the grass again......
... because you won't have any. Our garden looks like the Somme 
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graememk
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| posted on 20/8/07 at 09:44 PM |
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sod that park the 7 on it
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DarrenW
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| posted on 20/8/07 at 10:38 PM |
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Block paving?
His n hers??? (Double garage / conservatory)
Decking and pot plants.
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skodaman
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| posted on 21/8/07 at 03:14 AM |
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Astroturf and then park donor vehicles on it.
Skodaman
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DaveFJ
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| posted on 21/8/07 at 12:08 PM |
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our lawn was a nightmare for weeds, til we had a lawncare company recommended to us...
they came out and did an assement then came back and cut the grass and applied a treatment. they then come back every 3 months and retreat the lawn.
it's been 5 months now and the grass is completely weed free and looking really healthy!
And the best bit.. it's dead cheap! I think we pay about £13 a time! - that's for front and back lawns and we never have to lift a finger!
Dave
"In Support of Help the Heroes" - Always
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Minicooper
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| posted on 21/8/07 at 12:30 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by DaveFJ
our lawn was a nightmare for weeds, til we had a lawncare company recommended to us...
they came out and did an assement then came back and cut the grass and applied a treatment. they then come back every 3 months and retreat the lawn.
it's been 5 months now and the grass is completely weed free and looking really healthy!
And the best bit.. it's dead cheap! I think we pay about £13 a time! - that's for front and back lawns and we never have to lift a finger!
Is it a franchise? recently I've been getting lawn treatment stuff through the door, I think I kept the flyer but I'm not sure if it is a
franchise I could see if it's available down here
Cheers everyone
David
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DaveFJ
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| posted on 21/8/07 at 12:37 PM |
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Quite probably...
I will try and find out the name this evening - OC domestic deals with all these sorts of things!!! :
Dave
"In Support of Help the Heroes" - Always
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 21/8/07 at 12:41 PM |
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We use a franchise called 'Green Thumb' - it worked out that I would spend as much on bags of fertiliser/weedkiller as I spend with
them.
Lawn does look good - but getting them to do the scarifying is a bit traumatic - the lawns looked like the Somme battlefield for a couple of weeks,
20+ bags of stuff to take to the tip, etc. A month or so later the grass looked a hell of a lot better than it had done for a very long time. Again,
I couldn't hire a scarifier for what they charged me.
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DaveFJ
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| posted on 21/8/07 at 12:41 PM |
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Just had a quick search on t'interweb thingy...
I'm pretty sure this is the company, and yes it is a franchise..
Highly recommended
link
Dave
"In Support of Help the Heroes" - Always
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Minicooper
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| posted on 21/8/07 at 12:47 PM |
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Thanks everyone,
I'll give them a call see if they do my area
Cheers
David
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DarrenW
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| posted on 21/8/07 at 12:52 PM |
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How spooky, ive never heard of green thumbs before and just followed one of their vans up the road before reading this. They sound good from reading
the van ad.
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