agreed, friends just did it, looks uncannily real, hose it down for cleaning- trouble is initially pretty expensive
Greenkeepers help - scarifying lawn
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agreed, friends just did it, looks uncannily real, hose it down for cleaning- trouble is initially pretty expensive
Pin-seeker
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Yes it's not cheap for good quality stuff. Check eBay or some carpet shops now stock it.
stevelev
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Its easier to hire a hollow tine mschine the spike it with a garden fork. Throw all the tines into your compost.
Hen you have cleared them, go a screened topsoil mix it 50/50 with sharp sand. Top dress the entire surface with seed in the mix. . Put down the seed with an extra 25% seed to area ratio. Brush or roll it so you fill all the holes. Give it a light watering to moisten the dressing, and then roll the whole area to level any riased bits. It will be worth buying a shade tolerant seed these flourish and keep mosses at bay better than other grasses.
Leave your grass then for a coule of weeks, if you water it leave it a few days between, if you water each day the roots wont go deep. To promote healthy roots a good watering with several days between. When you do cut it, leave the grass box off, that way any bits of grass will mulch and feed the lan. You should really leave your grass box off once every month. AND DONT CUT IT TOO SHORT, 20MM IS PLENTY SHORT AND KEEP LUSH, AND WEED FREE
You can treat established lawn with verdona, easy to use, a selctive so leaves the grass but gets rid of most other things.
Then each year, weed, feed and moss kill in march/april as soon as grass starts to grow, rake out the dead moss over the following weeks. Then aereate, top dress, and keep cutting, you, ll have a lovely lawn, it sounds a lot but I can now run round the grass witha mower in 15 minutes, twice a week in summer, thats it.
To save you time you can get lawn care companies for about £100 a year to treat and areate and top dress your lawn, you just keep it trimmed
Hen you have cleared them, go a screened topsoil mix it 50/50 with sharp sand. Top dress the entire surface with seed in the mix. . Put down the seed with an extra 25% seed to area ratio. Brush or roll it so you fill all the holes. Give it a light watering to moisten the dressing, and then roll the whole area to level any riased bits. It will be worth buying a shade tolerant seed these flourish and keep mosses at bay better than other grasses.
Leave your grass then for a coule of weeks, if you water it leave it a few days between, if you water each day the roots wont go deep. To promote healthy roots a good watering with several days between. When you do cut it, leave the grass box off, that way any bits of grass will mulch and feed the lan. You should really leave your grass box off once every month. AND DONT CUT IT TOO SHORT, 20MM IS PLENTY SHORT AND KEEP LUSH, AND WEED FREE
You can treat established lawn with verdona, easy to use, a selctive so leaves the grass but gets rid of most other things.
Then each year, weed, feed and moss kill in march/april as soon as grass starts to grow, rake out the dead moss over the following weeks. Then aereate, top dress, and keep cutting, you, ll have a lovely lawn, it sounds a lot but I can now run round the grass witha mower in 15 minutes, twice a week in summer, thats it.
To save you time you can get lawn care companies for about £100 a year to treat and areate and top dress your lawn, you just keep it trimmed
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Evesdad
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Looks a bit like my mums one that I use. Lawn looks a mess at first but soon recovers with a bit of TLC. Be warned if the lawn is really mossy it will fill the basket about every metre!! It's worth doing though. Going to do mine at the weekend.
harpo_72
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Thanks for that top tip! Struggling to find sharp sand though any advice?
super hans
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Cheap as chips in B&Q
harpo_72
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Is it in the building section?
Rooter
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I had some samples turn up last week, my lawn is only tiny but gets a lot of use. The fake grass I like is £27 per m2, with me doing the work myself, it's gonna be about £1000 all in. But I will get a garden my kids can use all year round whatever the weather without them coming in plastered in mud. Samples came from a co called nam grass.
Pin-seeker
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Yes Wickes,B&Q Travis Perkins,Jewsons all stock it. About £1.30 for a 25kg bag.
Pin-seeker
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Cheers mate I'll have a look.
harpo_72
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I like your thinking I was thinking they all look quite good and the initial outlay was high but justified! Then next door said he installed some for a couple of clients and said they look shiney and unnatural when the sun hits them at a certain angle
sadly he said this in front of my wife and I have been sentenced to mowing the lawn for the rest of my life.
Rooter
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I like your thinking I was thinking they all look quite good and the initial outlay was high but justified! Then next door said he installed some for a couple of clients and said they look shiney and unnatural when the sun hits them at a certain angle
Get some samples dude from nam grass, the quality is unreal! I agree the cheap stuff looks exactly that, you get what u pay for!! This stuff has blades of brown grass etc for realistic look. It really is very very good.
harpo_72
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Can they make it at varying lengths ? I am thinking of making a short game area at our new house, I haven't told my wife though seeing as she overreacted to the simulator idea...
, but that will happen if I have to build it my self!
Rooter
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Can they make it at varying lengths ? I am thinking of making a short game area at our new house, I haven't told my wife though seeing as she overreacted to the simulator idea...
Yeh it varies from really short to something like 36mm for the 'nicer' stuff... I am gonna use my 3 samples for mini practice matts!!
matt611
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Good advice, thanks.
