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Any recommendation for a lawn (turf) that go down later in the year that is suitable with young kids/dog?
Before:
Current:
Most of the garden is in direct sunlight all day but becomes shaded on the right hand side (if standing at the house looking at the shed).
Looking for a turf that will withstand a young dog and kids! Any idea on a sqm cost (assuming we can get someone to prep the ground (likely to need some fresh topsoil)) and do the laying.
Before:
Current:
Most of the garden is in direct sunlight all day but becomes shaded on the right hand side (if standing at the house looking at the shed).
Looking for a turf that will withstand a young dog and kids! Any idea on a sqm cost (assuming we can get someone to prep the ground (likely to need some fresh topsoil)) and do the laying.
pmanson said:
Willeh85 said:
Pmanson has a project thread going for his garage, its so he can fence it off and allow his kids and pets to roam the gardens like caged animals whilst he views from the safety of his garage 
Damn my secrets out! illmonkey - couple of reasons - where the garage was previously meant that you had to drive over most of the garden to get to it so you couldn't make full use of the width of the garden. We also wanted to get it secure with the kids/dogs and finally where the old garage was is a big suntrap!
Garage project
illmonkey said:
Each to their own and all that, but why in the middle of the garden? You don't now have a nice patch, rather a strip and a hidden bit.
I remember that when he started the thread. The picture on this thread makes it look awful because it looks like he owns next door's garden; his garage is actually about a metre from the boundary rather than in the middle of his garden (or on the boundary as many might have built 
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RichB said:
Anyone got a good deterrent for foxes? I've had the odd scratching over the last few weeks but then last night something seems to have gone berserk and dug serious holes in the lawn! The little bugger...
It could be a sign that there's chafer grubs under the lawn; this time of year is a prime time for the grubs to be active. Foxes, badgers and birds can't resist those tasty chafer treats and aren't too fussed about making a mess of the lawn to get to them. If it is that, and you don't have too bad an infestation the problem may resolve itself. If the problem does persist then I'd lift some areas of turf and see if there's anything lurking under there, or just go with a preemptive nematode attack on them.
Just got back from a week away, after glyphosating my lawn - and it's not looking too bad. Just a few greenish bits that could do with an extra dose, and one small patch that I missed completely. I'll spray those this afternoon.
Irritatingly, every single dandelion is absolutely fine!
The scarifier is arriving on Thursday, so there's still time for the rest to die.
Irritatingly, every single dandelion is absolutely fine!
The scarifier is arriving on Thursday, so there's still time for the rest to die.
jagnet said:
And yet that still looks better than most of the lawns around my area 
Some Gump said:
^ you've missed a bit.
Yup, I missed several small bits. But the red dye definitely helped me cover the lawn thoroughly. Without it I'd have missed loads, and wasted loads in double-dosing. Shame it didn't paint it properly red to create an H. G. Wells nightmare!Next step is to use the scarifier to grub it all up and rotavate down to a depth of 5mm, once it's had another 5 or 6 days to die off. In the meantime we've got a lovely little Japanese acer to plant, which is going to be a specimen tree in the middle of a circular area of lawn - hopefully we'll get that in the ground tomorrow before the rain arrives on Sunday.
It's an Acer palmatum dissectum "Garnet". Hoping it's going to cope with a fairly full-sun position, although it will get some early and late shade. It's going to look cute surrounded by nice fine grass with no f
king Yorkshire Fog, crabgrass or Poa annua.
Edited by Dr Mike Oxgreen on Friday 21st August 17:26
Edited by Dr Mike Oxgreen on Friday 21st August 17:32
Just read through the whole thread, and inspired by Dr.Mike I'm going to do the same and start from scratch.
We've a 20+ year old lawn that was beautiful in its heyday, but over the years it's had the odd spout of neglect due to me concentrating on other things, and as such is too far gone renovation. I want to put in some paving edging anyway so might aswell get it all nice and level and re-seed.
I'll be ordering some glyphosate off eBay tonight and will take some before pics on the day of application.
We've a 20+ year old lawn that was beautiful in its heyday, but over the years it's had the odd spout of neglect due to me concentrating on other things, and as such is too far gone renovation. I want to put in some paving edging anyway so might aswell get it all nice and level and re-seed.
I'll be ordering some glyphosate off eBay tonight and will take some before pics on the day of application.
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