2023 Lawn Thread

[dhutch]

Well...

https://www.itv.com/news/2023-10-03/easy-life-say-...

...I hope they don't find out about Flymo's robot range of lawn care products.

[dhutch]

myvision said:

Is it tool late to rake and scarify now?
i'm based up in North Lincolnshire.

I'm no expert, but if the grass is still growing, no harm in a light mechanical rake/verticut/scarification but unless is very used it I wouldn't do any deep or drastic at this time of year as there's only maybe a month of reasonable growing left to recover. It's likely pretty boarderline for germination if you where thinking of a heavy rake and overseed so unless money is no object, I would only seed small patches that are particularly bad.

Others will have there own thoughts hopefully.

[dhutch]

Obviously if you have trees etc, you also want to keep up with raking and or otherwise removing leaves throughout autumn and into winter.

[dhutch]

Howard- said:

We've just given our Magnolia tree a considerable haircut and it has uncovered a shady area of the grass which is very patchy, so I'm going to overseed and top-dress at lunchtime and hope for the best, now that sun can get to that area

The rest of the lawn looks pretty solid for winter and it'll be getting its autumn feed at the same time.

Absolutely no harm in this sort of repair/patching, you have nothing to loose other than the cost of the seed, which for the odd patch (or even a whole small lawn) is negligible. I did a bit of that sort of thing three weeks ago and it has taken really well, other than a bit the dog/foxes got to, patched that bit two weeks ago and its just starting to think about a few shoots but that's about it. We're on the Wirral, so Northwest but semi coastal. Gets reasonable sun for a few hours a day but not all day sun.

[dhutch]

You can apply by hand, I have done for smaller areas. Till you get your eye in do the sum to work out the area, required weight, and weight it out. Apply in two passes. Once you have done it five times you'll get a feel for it and not have weight it for small patches.

For larger areas, absolutely a rotary spreader. Either hand held as shown for smaller lawns, or the wheeled version of the same brand is cost effective but sufficient.

[dhutch]

Very good.

[dhutch]

Depends slightly where you are, and how much sun that bit of garden gets. Meat thermometer into the top 10mm of soil is one option.

But other than small patch repairs on the off chance it takes, I would likely save it till spring. Just keep it dry, cool dark place, etc.

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Jon_Bmw said:

Rolawn have a black Friday offer on their Medallion 3kg lawn seed, which is buy one, get one free. I always thought it a bit pricey for doing an over seed without the BOGOF.

Even with a £4.99 courier fee, it is good value if you want to match your original grass seed/turf like me;

https://www.rolawn.co.uk/lawn-care/rolawn-medallio...

Hopefully it survives if I keep it unopened and inside during the winter.

Does seem very pricey compaired to others.

I can see the advantage for patching in turf, but would be tempted to use another brand for overseeding?

https://www.lawnsmith.co.uk/staygreen-lawn-grass-s...