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[BallistixOnZ490]

Petition to ban anyone recommending fake grass...

I absoulutely won't pay £500 for a new living turf when the stuff I needed to reseed cost £40 and some effort on top (maybe still need mulch / compost).

If it comes to that I would pay for artificial only so that this doesn't happen again.

Is it warm enough yet to reseed lawns? Today was the last of the frost according to the weather forecast and with temperature high 10 - 17 and lows 3 - 5....... The ground should be warm enough?

Thanks for pointing this out, I had assumed that it would be but I will still wait at least 2 more weeks before applying the seed.

 

[dlockers]

I absoulutely won't pay £500 for a new living turf when the stuff I needed to reseed cost £40 and some effort on top (maybe still need mulch / compost).

If it comes to that I would pay for artificial only so that this doesn't happen again.

Don't get me wrong, I'm totally with you on paying the £40 to reseed. My comment was about astroturf in general as it doesn't last as people think, needs pretty intensive preparation (otherwise you just get grass growing through it ironically) and is generally an environmental disaster.

 

[BallistixOnZ490]

I got my hand tools earlier and found a pair of old hardcapped knee wraps, but I can only last about 15-20 minutes of removing weeds before I'm exhausted oop.

I'll stick to trying to do that much twice a day to get everything de weeded. Should only take 1-2 more days to remove all the weeds, then spend more time tilling with the rake.

The weeds and roots come out a lot easier with the hand tools compared to the rake of course, but my body is junk.

Then I need to remember to remove future weeds as they start to sprout with these hand tools.

At least by the end of summer, all my south facing lawn and rear facing lounge should be done up.

It was all meant to have been done last year but lockdown happened.

 

[b0rn2sk8]

I would grab a bottle of selective weed killer for lawns to take care of future weeds. That will deal with all the usual weeds and not require manual removal. I tend to spray my lawn two or three times a year to keep them all at bay.

 

[BallistixOnZ490]

I would grab a bottle of selective weed killer for lawns to take care of future weeds. That will deal with all the usual weeds and not require manual removal. I tend to spray my lawn two or three times a year to keep them all at bay.

I already have some of that, it was just previously useless when they were all overgrown.

I made a crude plan of what I have to deal with, all the brown is mostly covered in weeds currently, just the side hedges and trees are somehow still alive.

 

[Delvis]

Petition to ban anyone recommending fake grass...

+1

I would grab a bottle of selective weed killer for lawns to take care of future weeds. That will deal with all the usual weeds and not require manual removal. I tend to spray my lawn two or three times a year to keep them all at bay.

I must have got the wrong weedol as it made brown patches where I sprayed the weed, kicking myself now as its nice other than that

 

[BallistixOnZ490]

I just ordered a 330L compost bin from a store recommended on my council's website, and it was £10 less including delivery than buying one from Amazon. I was intending to get one since I moved in, except I only started physiotherapy last September and couldn't even crouch anymore before then.

And a 10L watering can for £7.50 on Amazon because hosepipes cost too much more for a decent one.

I'm meant to be doing as much exercise as I can manage or all my joints will fail very soon anyway.

I'm on a mission to discover if gardening can treat a progressive joint disease, or it could paralyze me. Fun.

 

[Delvis]

I just ordered a 330L compost bin from a store recommended on my council's website, and it was £10 less including delivery than buying one from Amazon. I was intending to get one since I moved in, except I only started physiotherapy last September and couldn't even crouch anymore before then.

And a 10L watering can for £7.50 on Amazon because hosepipes cost too much more for a decent one.

I'm meant to be doing as much exercise as I can manage or all my joints will fail very soon anyway.

I'm on a mission to discover if gardening can treat a progressive joint disease, or it could paralyze me. Fun.

I'm a firm believer of keep moving otherwise you'll seize up into non existence

 

[BallistixOnZ490]

I'm a firm believer of keep moving otherwise you'll seize up into non existence

Thats exactly what 1 rheumatologist and 2 physiotherapists have told me.

I basically had 80 year joints since my early 20s.

I stopped moving then my ankles turned into melons, now I have to keep moving more.

 

[Delvis]

Thats exactly what 1 rheumatologist and 2 physiotherapists have told me.

I basically had 80 year joints since my early 20s.

Covids ruined me, sitting down most of the day at home for work.

Going back to the gym soon, that and o have a garden to landscape which is going to make or break me haha

 

[BallistixOnZ490]

Still needed a pitchfork and spade because the rake isnt enough to loosen the hardened soil, ordered a £35 set over a £23 set because it was described and reviewed as being much stronger.

It seems that the reason the grass died in the first place is that most of the garden soil is rock solid, and the top layer simply crumbles away when the grass is cut, as the roots couldn't penetrate any further.

Total cost of all the tools and seed is now £80, and it may still need new topsoil / compost.

If I had simply had it re soiled and turfed for £500, that still wouldn't have dealt with the hardened soil and the same problem would have happened again.

Forgot about the Composter, that was £30 but I needed one of those anyway for the waste.

So £110 spent and might still need topsoil / compost too. All these tools are going to have to be left on the ground in my garden.

 

[Hawk Tuah]

Many of the plants haven't blossomed yet, but the colour is starting to come back into the garden.

 

[lewism]

What a wonderful space that is.

 

[BallistixOnZ490]

How do you keep that whole lawn so weed free though?

So far I've managed to de weed about 80% of my backyard, a little bit left then I need to till the whole lot with a shovel and fork before reseeding.

Some of the weeds I have are just some kind of thicker / denser grass with unbelievably massive roots. I haven't focused as much on clearing those as they arent the worse, I mostly have nettles and broad leaf dock x 100.

I could try to create a border with cuttings of the hedges I already have on the side of my house too. Will need to learn how to edge the lawn.

Maybe I can find an outdoor storage box to keep my tools in, not enough room for a shed plus Im not allowed to make any structural changes inside or outside the property.

 

[Hawk Tuah]

How do you keep that whole lawn so weed free though?

There are weeds. But fortunately, they're green as well - so if you zoom out you can't see them. I went a bit heavy handed with the weed n' feed about a month ago - so I've got some patches where I've killed the grass as well. I've got patch repair mix in all those spots now - just waiting for them to grow.

When we moved here the border plants had taken over a lot of the garden - so I've cut back quite a bit. Now working at growing lawn back in those spaces.

 

[BallistixOnZ490]

Nowadays your garden would be split into maybe 20 houses like mine.

I really like the hedge and tree border in the second pic but that must be ridiculously hard to maintain.

 

[BallistixOnZ490]

Once upon a time there was just one dock and I ignored it:

Then it grew seeds and made another 500 mini mes:

Soon there will be none and new grass.

And the remains of that thick ugly grass needs removing still.

 

[Hawk Tuah]

Nowadays your garden would be split into maybe 20 houses like mine.

I really like the hedge and tree border in the second pic but that must be ridiculously hard to maintain.

It's all well established - so not too bad. I've got a philosophy that I'm trying - I'm giving each plant / bush space. So you'll see there's a clearly defined gap between each unique plant. All I need to to is keep them from overgrowning - so they don't strangle each other. A small trim once a month with the hedge cutters.

The front garden I've had to cut back quite dramatically as it was allowed to overgrow.

 

[Delvis]

There are weeds. But fortunately, they're green as well - so if you zoom out you can't see them. I went a bit heavy handed with the weed n' feed about a month ago - so I've got some patches where I've killed the grass as well. I've got patch repair mix in all those spots now - just waiting for them to grow.

When we moved here the border plants had taken over a lot of the garden - so I've cut back quite a bit. Now working at growing lawn back in those spaces.

What are you doing / have for the patch repair? Tried reseeding but I think the cold mornings have stopped things from germinating prooerly

 

[Hawk Tuah]

I think it's been too cold for grass seed to grow until the last few days. And as well as being too cold, it's been really dry as well.

The areas I've really needed to get going (where I've cut plants away and wanted to reseed an area of lawn) I've had covered with some spare corrugated clear roofing I had lying around. The grass underneath that started growing within a week, and the grass not covered still hasn't started to grow. Also stopped birds getting at the seed.