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

Get a scarifier something like this:

linky thing

Then watch your lawn get ripped to shreds for the first few runs !

or a pet duck no moss, weeds, snails or slugs

need to spend every weekend washing you garden down though...

This allways seems to work

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

Concrete, works everytime.

Couple of million work might help

ATB

Simon

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.

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[Edited on 20/8/07 by britishtrident]

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!!

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

sod that park the 7 on it

Block paving?

His n hers??? (Double garage / conservatory)


Decking and pot plants.

Astroturf and then park donor vehicles on it.

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!

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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!

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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!!! :

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.

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

Thanks everyone,
I'll give them a call see if they do my area

Cheers
David

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.