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Sowing seed or laying turf
It is recommended you use 50 grams of seed per square metre, providing you protect the sown lawn from the birds. The easiest way to judge the amount without doing a great deal of measuring, is to lay 4 canes about a metre long, on a corner of your prepared ground and create a square [...]
When To Set A Lawn
Grass seed doesn’t germinate well in hot dry weather and turf should not be laid in drought if it can be avoided. September is usually the best time of the year to set lawn seed, when the ground is still warm but not too hot and there should be sufficient rain which is required to [...]
Introduction
If the ground is covered with weeds, it may be easier to treat with a glyphosate weed killer and leave for a few weeks, but whether you are sowing seed, or laying turf, the ground needs to be prepared properly. For a well drained lawn, you will need at least 6” of top soil. Less [...]
Seed or Turf
Decide which method you are going to use. Having quality turf laid by professionals is expensive, but you get an instant lawn. However, you need to make sure that the turf is in fact quality turf and this may not be easy to recognise. Having the turf delivered and laying it yourself, is cheaper but [...]
Types Of Lawn Grass
The finest grasses will look better, but will need regular mowing, feeding and watering to remain so and, will not tolerate hard usage. This kind of grass is a little more expensive but ideal if all the kids are grown up and the football world cup isn’t going to be re-enacted every weekend. An everyday [...]
Create The Perfect Lawn
Before you start digging, or calling the turf company, think about what you want to achieve. What shape are you looking for? Are you going to have a traditional square shape, or a unique one with nice long sweeping curves? The latter will make mowing easier as it will minimise the number of times you [...]
Bent Grass
Qualities Creeping bentgrass is a cool-season specialty grass primarily used for golf course putting greens, lawn bowling greens, and lawn tennis facilities. The skill and expense needed to maintain this species usually eliminates it as a possible home lawn turf. It is adapted to cool, humid regions and prefers sunny areas but will tolerate some [...]
Annual Ryegrass
Qualities Annual ryegrass is a cool-season grass well adapted to sunny conditions and moderate temperatures. Also known as Italian ryegrass or wintergrass, it is often sown at high rates to overseed warm-season turfgrasses for fall, winter, and early spring color or to provide temporary cover for soil stabilization. It is not otherwise used for turf. [...]
Meadow Fescue
Qualities Hard fescue is a cool-season grass often used in cool-season grass seed mixtures when shade is an expected problem. It does well on low fertility soils and in shaded areas. This species is good as a non-mowed turf for slopes, median strips, and nonused areas of parks. It does not recover well from severe [...]
Tall Fescue
Qualities Tall fescue is a cool-season grass, well adapted to sunny or partially shady areas. When densely sown, a pure stand forms a moderate to coarse-textured lawn that is uniform in appearance with good weed and disease resistance. Tall fescue tolerates warm summer temperatures and stays green during cool, but not severe winter conditions. New [...]
