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The best time is Spring or Autumn, but because it's only four Rolls it will be easy to water, so fine to put it down know. Just give it loads of water.
Just feed it loads of water and that 'Rollawn' (She use's it) stuff and keep it moist, not soaking. Give it a tug every so often to see if the lawn has 'Taken' to the soil and then it's good to give a cut, do this a couple of times and then treat as a normal lawn.
Any chance of amusing us with some pictures??
Just feed it loads of water and that 'Rollawn' (She use's it) stuff and keep it moist, not soaking. Give it a tug every so often to see if the lawn has 'Taken' to the soil and then it's good to give a cut, do this a couple of times and then treat as a normal lawn.
Any chance of amusing us with some pictures??
I'm utterly inept with plants & indeed anything that requires watering/feeding etc
Garden centres would have you believe its easy, but I suspect their interest is purely fiscal
Can I expect to get away with sprinkler on a hose, and play it over the grass for 10 minutes?
how long before it 'takes root' and becomes part of the scenery?
Garden centres would have you believe its easy, but I suspect their interest is purely fiscal
Can I expect to get away with sprinkler on a hose, and play it over the grass for 10 minutes?
how long before it 'takes root' and becomes part of the scenery?
agric said:
Can I expect to get away with sprinkler on a hose, and play it over the grass for 10 minutes? how long before it 'takes root' and becomes part of the scenery?
Plants need water, food and light. If you assume for the moment that food and light are OK, all it needs is water. 10 minutes is not going to do anything - think an hour plus. Four gallons per square yard, like the man said. If that's gibberish, play a sprinkler into a bucket for one minute. Measure what comes out and do the sums
As for 'takes root', it's 16 days 7 hours 31 minutes (leap years excepted). No actually, just take a corner and try to lift it gently and see if it's fixed to the ground beneath or not. It really is that simple.
NB How did you get a handle like 'agric', what with agricola being Latin for farmer?!
Edited by Simpo Two on Friday 10th July 20:47
Ashamed to say Agricultural college days (long ago)
Grass might be the most prodigious crop globally,
but aside from topping it, I know precious little on its growing qualitites (as a decorative lawn)
My garden is a study in neglect TBH, & only the hardiest survive, a lawn is my only concession to creeping modernism, should it fail to flourish then a small pond is going in for some frogs and other creepy crawlies next year
Grass might be the most prodigious crop globally,
but aside from topping it, I know precious little on its growing qualitites (as a decorative lawn)
My garden is a study in neglect TBH, & only the hardiest survive, a lawn is my only concession to creeping modernism, should it fail to flourish then a small pond is going in for some frogs and other creepy crawlies next year
agric said:
Ashamed to say Agricultural college days (long ago)
Grass might be the most prodigious crop globally, but aside from topping it, I know precious little on its growing qualitites (as a decorative lawn)
My garden is a study in neglect TBH, & only the hardiest survive, a lawn is my only concession to creeping modernism, should it fail to flourish then a small pond is going in for some frogs and other creepy crawlies next year
My garden is also a study in Darwinism - but I do recall that grass is a C4 monocot Grass might be the most prodigious crop globally, but aside from topping it, I know precious little on its growing qualitites (as a decorative lawn)
My garden is a study in neglect TBH, & only the hardiest survive, a lawn is my only concession to creeping modernism, should it fail to flourish then a small pond is going in for some frogs and other creepy crawlies next year
agric said:
I'm utterly inept with plants & indeed anything that requires watering/feeding etc
Garden centres would have you believe its easy, but I suspect their interest is purely fiscal
Can I expect to get away with sprinkler on a hose, and play it over the grass for 10 minutes?
how long before it 'takes root' and becomes part of the scenery?
Why not buy a bag of 'Value' grass seed and spend all of 30 seconds throwing it out.Garden centres would have you believe its easy, but I suspect their interest is purely fiscal
Can I expect to get away with sprinkler on a hose, and play it over the grass for 10 minutes?
how long before it 'takes root' and becomes part of the scenery?
It will just grow fine 75% of the time. If it doesn't just repeat.
Laying turf is one of the most misunderstood things in modern gardens as people see it on TV of the makeover shows and think it is a simile for fitting carpet. In reality that is far from the truth.
I would just buy a big sack of seed but for the fact it would take just so long to do anything,
better still if someone marketed something to replicate say, a meadows wild flowers I'd buy that, I know it flies in the face of modern aesthetics, as you say
the gardening programs would suggest 'laying a lawn' with an old kitchen knife to trim it, and a few boards to walk up & down. but the public require instant flora-gratification.
Many people armed with this nonsense (like me) load up with all kinds of rubbish at the local Wyevale, only to repeat the performance with fresh plants,
a year later,
better still if someone marketed something to replicate say, a meadows wild flowers I'd buy that, I know it flies in the face of modern aesthetics, as you say
the gardening programs would suggest 'laying a lawn' with an old kitchen knife to trim it, and a few boards to walk up & down. but the public require instant flora-gratification.
Many people armed with this nonsense (like me) load up with all kinds of rubbish at the local Wyevale, only to repeat the performance with fresh plants,
a year later,
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