2018 Lawn thread

[wjwren]

My lawn is saturated today,thunder lightening, the works, so hopefully wont take long to come back.

[AJB88]

wjwren said:

My lawn is saturated today,thunder lightening, the works, so hopefully wont take long to come back.

Yeh had this yesterday, it had been threatening rain for last 3 days but had nothing, gave them a good soaking with sprinkler and 4 hours later its lashing it down.

[PorkInsider]

fastbikes76 said:

markiii said:

did she at least empty the pool onto the lawn?

Ha ! Don’t give her that much credit.... nope, she emptied it down the side of the sodding decking, you know, that large chunk of deadwood that’s struggling to grow in this heat.

I give up !

I shouldn’t laugh but....

[DonkeyApple]

Today is the first rain in about 60 days here and it’s just a nice constant drizzle. I have to confess that a brown lawn never worries me as it comes back within days of enough rain. It’s also going to come back with an absolute explosion of weeds. But last Christmas I hedged the whole front of the property and keeping that alive has been hugely time consuming as have all the borders that were replanted in the back garden.

[fastbikes76]

PorkInsider said:

fastbikes76 said:

markiii said:

did she at least empty the pool onto the lawn?

Ha ! Don’t give her that much credit.... nope, she emptied it down the side of the sodding decking, you know, that large chunk of deadwood that’s struggling to grow in this heat.

I give up !

I shouldn’t laugh but....

I can laugh now... but damn she do some crazy stuff sometimes.

[PositronicRay]

dhutch said:

Our lawn greened up a bit when it rained,

Daniel

Ours too, clover is doing really well, I'm expecting the moss to follow suit.

[iambigred]

PositronicRay said:

Ours too, clover is doing really well, I'm expecting the moss to follow suit.

Any tips on getting rid of clover? I went away on holiday earlier this year and when I came back the garden was a bit of a jungle and clover had spread it's way across the lawn. It's quite interesting how it worms it's way under the grass. I tried to rake/pull as much of it out as possible but it's come back in the same patches and is now even more difficult to remove.

[Hayek]

iambigred said:

PositronicRay said:

Ours too, clover is doing really well, I'm expecting the moss to follow suit.

Any tips on getting rid of clover? I went away on holiday earlier this year and when I came back the garden was a bit of a jungle and clover had spread it's way across the lawn. It's quite interesting how it worms it's way under the grass. I tried to rake/pull as much of it out as possible but it's come back in the same patches and is now even more difficult to remove.

I have heard that although the targeted broadleaf weedkillers will work, it's hydrophobic and it's hard to get the stuff on the leaves. The solution is apparently to use a wetting agent mixed in (i.e. a bit of detergent).

[Jambo85]

iambigred said:

Any tips on getting rid of clover? I went away on holiday earlier this year and when I came back the garden was a bit of a jungle and clover had spread it's way across the lawn. It's quite interesting how it worms it's way under the grass. I tried to rake/pull as much of it out as possible but it's come back in the same patches and is now even more difficult to remove.

Am I alone in thinking clover is excellent? Fixes nitrogen in the soil organically, it's green, and its flowers look nice and are superb for pollinators.

[S11Steve]

Jambo85 said:

Am I alone in thinking clover is excellent? Fixes nitrogen in the soil organically, it's green, and its flowers look nice and are superb for pollinators.

My tortoise loves it, and can clear a good few square foot of it in a few hours.

[Evanivitch]

Jambo85 said:

Am I alone in thinking clover is excellent? Fixes nitrogen in the soil organically, it's green, and its flowers look nice and are superb for pollinators.

I've got a bag of microclover waiting for post scarifying.

[MrChips]

Mine seems to have recovered well as my fertiliser mishap.



I’ve also spoke to Thames water and they have some options for me to not pay waste water charges on the water I use on the garden.

[Yidwann]

If you don’t look too closely, mine isn’t looking too bad after the rain!

[stewjohnst]

Quite a bit of rain up Yorkshire way has restored the lawn, excise the dog related patches and the burnt out bit were the paddling pool had been sat.

Plants and veg also quite pleased too but we have good water retaining soil so even in the driest period it would still hold a fair bit of moisture.

Only thing we’ve lost is a tree that never stood a chance, planted two days before the storms hit in spring, non stop winds bent it to pieces, staked it based on our usual prevailing wind, which changed for an extended period...then the dry spell has just wiped it out.

Needed some brown matter for the compost as just trimmed the grass yesterday so all is not lost.

[alorotom]

What’s the best way to get rid of the dog-related patches, we’ve developed loads on our rear lawn - I’m assuming my dog pisses concentrated acid looking at the state of it!

[Johnnytheboy]

alorotom said:

What’s the best way to get rid of the dog-related patches, we’ve developed loads on our rear lawn - I’m assuming my dog pisses concentrated acid looking at the state of it!

There are various things you can add to their water which is meant to control the problem (cider vinegar, sulphur rocks, etc.) , but to be brutally honest I've never found them very effective. My two have shagged their favourite bit of my lawn.

Could try

[dhutch]

alorotom said:

What’s the best way to get rid of the dog-related patches, we’ve developed loads on our rear lawn - I’m assuming my dog pisses concentrated acid looking at the state of it!

It's mass over fertilisation basically. So you can do worse than water it in, but yeah, from I've see live with it. And it train then to piss on a tree.


Daniel

[S11Steve]

alorotom said:

What’s the best way to get rid of the dog-related patches, we’ve developed loads on our rear lawn - I’m assuming my dog pisses concentrated acid looking at the state of it!

Count yourself lucky that it's only the lawn, and not a twice daily squat on the carpet or rugs.... If it is kept in the kitchen overnight it howls and barks all night, Let it out of the kitchen and it pisses on the carpets. This is despite numerous walks and toilet breaks throughout the day.

I hear Korea is nice this time of year.

[Johnnytheboy]

I've not experienced drought on this scale since starting to care about my lawn.

Now we've had some decent rain, new grass is starting to poke through quite quickly but there's an awful lot of dead stuff now. Presumable once we get to September a particularly thorough scarifying will be in order?

[dhutch]

S11Steve said:

Count yourself lucky that it's only the lawn, and not a twice daily squat on the carpet or rugs.... If it is kept in the kitchen overnight it howls and barks all night, Let it out of the kitchen and it pisses on the carpets. This is despite numerous walks and toilet breaks throughout the day.

Sounds a nightmare.
Our dog is a rescue and we where we'll aware you can get very varied results given unknown history, unlike if you have them from a puppy, but fortunately he ask been great.
As long as the dog knows they are safe, and the omega if the pack, you should be ok. But obviously it's never the simple.

Daniel