2020 Lawn thread

[RichB]

BertyFish said:

I’m after some help on these weeds please.

Surely that's clover?

[Harry Flashman]

Clover like that has turned up for the first time in my lawn this year, after all the work I spent improving it. I'm happy with it! Helps fix nitrogen and is very pleasant underfoot.

[dhutch]

fiatpower said:

I want to buy a decent strimmer as the one I have now is awful. It is a flymo with the wire type cutter but it just keeps snapping even with correct use. Any suggestions for one with a better cutting blade (maybe a solid blade rather than the wire type?)?

Not really lawn thread material. There was a thread a bit ago in the topic. The market leader is Stihl, but multiple people where backing another brand they was less expensive, forget which, blue in colour in think. Search for forums for strimmer and pick a few recent threads.

[dhutch]

rallye101 said:

dhutch said:

What do people think this is?

Assume it some sort of weed grass so have started with a closer cut, but it's quite low lying so I'm not sure I've improved matters! Electric lawn rake?


Cheers

Daniel

I had the same issue on page 33, I got a steak knife and slashed across them every few days and over seeded...gone now

Must have missed that, and have my pages set to a mad number of posts per page (this is only page 12 for me) but will try and find it. And or get my grotty Stanley knife on the job.

Did you get the name of said weed?

Daniel

Edited by dhutch on Monday 22 June 11:02

[fiatpower]

dhutch said:

Not really lawn thread material. There was a thread a bit ago in the topic. The market leader is Stihl, but multiple people where backing another brand they was less expensive, forget which, blue in colour in think. Search for forums for strimmer and pick a few recent threads.

Apologies, I use my strimmer to cut grass. A lawn is made of grass. Therefore lawn thread. For what it's worth mine is cut by a robot but the edges are done by a strimmer. Seen a big improvement in the grass quality since installing the mower at the start of the season. It was very patchy and various colours of green. Now it's looking quite thick after the recent set of downpours. Just lots of dead patches and low spots in the lawn to even out over the rest of the summer.

[BertyFish]

RichB said:

Surely that's clover?

Clover it is, thanks.

Looks like a standard weed killer should do it.

[morfmedia]

Most expensive is stihl but long lasting and easy availability for parts and servicing.

Then it’s Titan from screwfix or the SGS engineering strimmers ( I have the Titan)

Otherwise lots of people are going cordless like Makita etc if you already have batteries

Edited by morfmedia on Monday 22 June 12:23

[dhutch]

fiatpower said:

Apologies, I use my strimmer to cut grass. A lawn is made of grass. Therefore lawn thread. For what it's worth mine is cut by a robot but the edges are done by a strimmer. Seen a big improvement in the grass quality since installing the mower at the start of the season. It was very patchy and various colours of green. Now it's looking quite thick after the recent set of downpours. Just lots of dead patches and low spots in the lawn to even out over the rest of the summer.

We basically don't even cover lawn mowers on here, its about lawn care methods, else would never get anywhere.

morfmedia said:

SGS engineering strimmers

That was it. Makita for cordless.


Daniel

[r44flyer]

I don't know, there's always a little room for talk about lawn machinery. Although there is a lawnmower thread on here which might illicit a more useful technical reply.

And there's the 'council' thread for strimmers...

[wjwren]

I use a ryobi cordless. Use zip ties for the blades. Works wonders and cheap to replace. I find i replace the ties about once every second or third use.

[AC43]

wjwren said:

I use a ryobi cordless. Use zip ties for the blades. Works wonders and cheap to replace. I find i replace the ties about once every second or third use.

That's an interesting idea. How do you attatch them?

FWIW my electic strimmer just died ao I bought a more powerful petrol strimmer from my FIL. It has a much thinker cord and slices through things very effectively. It's an Echo SRM 222

I planned on having a robomower but ended up just using a cheap push along cylinder mower as a stop gap. Have now got an electic Qualcast eletric cylinder whish (a) speeds things up and (b) gets my wife and/or son involved at they didn't like the maula one. In previous placed with larger lawns I had a powered 4 stroke Honda.

The other thing I use is an Eckman eletric scrifier.

[AC43]

fiatpower said:

I want to buy a decent strimmer as the one I have now is awful. It is a flymo with the wire type cutter but it just keeps snapping even with correct use. Any suggestions for one with a better cutting blade (maybe a solid blade rather than the wire type?)?

I've fot an Echo SRM 222 which comes with a metal brush cutting blade for really heavy duty stuff and a decent thirk cord for lighter duties. It still snaps but far less frequently than the weedier on on my previous machine.

[hacksaw]

Slowly improving.

[rallye101]

dhutch said:

Must have missed that, and have my pages set to a mad number of posts per page (this is only page 12 for me) but will try and find it. And or get my grotty Stanley knife on the job.

Did you get the name of said weed?

Daniel

Edited by dhutch on Monday 22 June 11:02

Some sort of crab grass I think..

[jagnet]

That moment when you realise, with the benefit of hindsight, that the lawn may possibly have got away from you a bit:

[zorba_the_greek]

Hi All,

After a garden electric hoover & blower for our 10x8m garden. Leaf, cut grass etc...

What do people recommend?

Been looking at the Stihl BGA 100 but dont think it sucks....only blows.

Thanks in advance

[Cl4rkyPH]

Utilising the advice on here I just bought some of this:

https://www.lawnsmith.co.uk/prod/lawn-fertiliser-p...

Hopefully it arrives just in time for rainfall, can’t wait.

[AC43]

Whistle said:

I think mine has reached its best now.

The business.

[stevensdrs]

This was a new small lawn replaced last year and it was all green until I put Aftercut on it. What the hell has happened?. Will these areas come back or will I have to seed them?

[dhutch]

rallye101 said:

dhutch said:

Must have missed that, and have my pages set to a mad number of posts per page (this is only page 12 for me) but will try and find it. And or get my grotty Stanley knife on the job.

Did you get the name of said weed?

Daniel

Some sort of crab grass I think..

Ok, done a bit of reading, appears it is an annual which re-appears yearly due to seeds it leaves. Can seen even if cut very short. So talks about pre-emergents to prevent seed germination.

Might start with a good rake and re-seed.

I did a med-deep scarification for bad thatch early april and then with all the dry weather didnt get to overseed it, which is why we are in a mess I think. Only a few med-large patches, not all over, so I think completing a good overseeding it the first port of call.


Daniel