How green is your lawn

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· Posted: 29.03.2020 · #1

Should we start a competition to see who can have the best looking lawn with all this time we now have on our hands?
You can probably see I am getting bored already.

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· Posted: 29.03.2020 · #2

Does moss count, cos if it does, I reckon I’m in with a shout.

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· Posted: 29.03.2020 · #3

I spent all Saturday spray that f ing stuff,it grows without any help.

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· Posted: 29.03.2020 · #4

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Should we start a competition to see who can have the best looking lawn with all this time we now have on our hands?

Sure. I’ll start with mine.

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· Posted: 29.03.2020 · #5

I gave ours a severe dose of sulphate of iron on Saturday so it’s currently black!

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· Posted: 29.03.2020 · #6

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Should we start a competition to see who can have the best looking lawn with all this time we now have on our hands?
You can probably see I am getting bored already.

SICKO!

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· Posted: 30.03.2020 · #7

If that is the Ramblers lawn he/she is already well placed to win

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· Posted: 30.03.2020 · #8

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I gave ours a severe dose of sulphate of iron on Saturday so it’s currently black!

Have done that up about 2 years ago, the top goes black but it's thriving underneath, thought about renting a scarifier but I think I'd need a JCB to shift the stuff afterwards ( 1and 1/2 acre garden )

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· Posted: 30.03.2020 · #9

Its a few Goats you need Dave

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Its a few Goats you need Dave

16 sheep got in for about 20 hours ( before I could get them out ) and they
couldn't handle it John

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· Posted: 30.03.2020 · #11

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Should we start a competition to see who can have the best looking lawn with all this time we now have on our hands?

Sure. I’ll start with mine.

If that's your lawn prove it by digging a square out of it and shoe the pictures.it will be easy to do the repair

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· Posted: 30.03.2020 · #12

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Should we start a competition to see who can have the best looking lawn with all this time we now have on our hands?

Sure. I’ll start with mine.

Tut tut. I see brown patches

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· Posted: 30.03.2020 · #13

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I gave ours a severe dose of sulphate of iron on Saturday so it’s currently black!

Yip, the top went black but still thriving underneath. Raked out about 2 sq metres and probably have enough crop to fill a wheelie bin.
I need a plan B. Next door neighbour is a landscape gardener so I might see if he’ll hire me a scarifier otherwise I’m going to end up looking like Popeye

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· Posted: 30.03.2020 · #14

We are on a beaten docket as they say in the north. The dog pees on the grass leaving lots of burnt circular patches all over the lawn.

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· Posted: 30.03.2020 · #15

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I gave ours a severe dose of sulphate of iron on Saturday so it’s currently black!

Scarifier is the way to go,have just sprayed my own garden so need to give it a few days to kill the moss before getting into action.

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· Posted: 30.03.2020 · #16

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Yip, the top went black but still thriving underneath. Raked out about 2 sq metres and probably have enough crop to fill a wheelie bin.

Thats going to be the big problem ,theres mountains of it

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· Posted: 30.03.2020 · #17

No awards for me then!
Ah well, maybe next year

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· Posted: 30.03.2020 · #18

Being afflicted with the dreaded moss invasion I have just done an application of a product which requires the dead moss to be raked out

Now I've seen https://www.howtogarden.ie/law…scarifier/ which looks like it's just the job. No raking or scarifying, it turns the moss into a fertiliser for the grass

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· Posted: 30.03.2020 · #19

@baguette let's know how that goes, brilliant if it works

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· Posted: 30.03.2020 · #20

The petrol scarified fairly pulls up the thatch and moss. A handy tip I found was to use a lag blower to blow it into piles to make it easier to put into heaps and pick up. We have a tow behind time rake that we pull behind the ride on now and again that keeps the moss at bay somewhat. Comes flat packed and you weight it down with a couple of 4” blocks. If the moss that you pull up is not too heavy and gets a chance then you can lift it with the roads on mower.

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· Posted: 30.03.2020 · #21

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@baguette let's know how that goes, brilliant if it works

Unfortunately, I've it done already with the stuff which requires the dead moss to be raked out

I'll definitely try the stuff that turns the moss into fertiliser and requires no raking out next time

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· Posted: 31.03.2020 · #22

The winner gets to borrow my 3 Jack Russells for a week. I think they are building a golf course, at least I assume thats what the holes and bunkers are for.

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· Posted: 31.03.2020 · #23

Well Líath thinks it's great.

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· Posted: 02.07.2020 · #24

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No awards for me then!
Ah well, maybe next year

Looking better now!

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· Posted: 02.07.2020 · #25

That’s some difference once you get rid of the moss looking good

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