Grass Clippings

Renovating a Tired Worn Out Lawn & Pimms

I am often asked by Friends how to renovate a lawn. Normally this question comes about after I have been around their garden and they get a bit scared that I might look at their lawn! A brief meeting with a set of friends yesterday evening was typical of such a request. Afterall, they are keen enough to tackle the task themselves but are lacking the know how on what to do when and also at what time of year too.

Roof Top Gardens and Green Buildings

A recent news article caught my attention discussing the issues of installing green and living roofs on buildings. With the current media attention in reducing your carbon footprint, seems like a good idea has been hatched.

Earlier this year saw the first green roof and green wall policy in the UK. Cities in the UK are likely to follow the early innovating example of The City of Sheffield adopting such a policy.

New Lawn Society network launched for UK professional and lawn enthusiasts

We are delighted to say that our new lawn network is now live and ready for your membership.

We have worked on a new concept that lawn owners don't want to just visit a lawn forum, leave a question and wait three weeks for someone to post an answer.

Great Lawn Wanted for News Article.....

An invitation to lawn owners within the M25. Do you have a lawn that has not been returved within the past three years that can be photographed and may be featured in a news article?

How to Calibrate a Fertiliser Spreader

Applying fertiliser is a daunting thought for some lawn owners but you can sleep at night, and not worry that you will wake and find rust orange burnt patches, by making sure that you have calibrated your fertiliser spreader before tackling the task.

Don't be put off by the word 'calibration', it may sound scientific, but actually it is as easy as pie if you follow our simple guide.

Applying Fertiliser To Your Lawns

One of the biggest problems associated with lawn feeding, is the visual stripes, of over or under application of
control product which may also lead to brown scorched areas - The net result can be rather unsightly and difficult to correct.

Would You Buy a Lawn From a Home Builder?

Property Construction Companies large and small are notoriously poor at ensuring that when they sell a new home to a client, the gardens including the lawn are always on the bottom of the list of jobs and overall quality of what is provided is generally poor.

The gardens and lawns are often build on severely compacted ground with minimal preparation and suitable top soil resulting in a waterlogged area that is not fit for the purpose as a garden unless the client intervenes to put things right with a completely new garden design and correction of the underlying problems that their purchased site was left with once the builders sold the property.

Grass Seed Costs Shoot Up in 2008

Grass seed prices have increased by at least 30% as the seed from the 2007 harvest came onto the market this spring.

This is due to the wet weather of last summer affecting the seed harvest in the UK and Europe, and the high price of wheat forcing higher payments to herbage seed growers.

What to do if you find Leatherjackets in your newly delivered turf

Are you planning to order turf over the internet this weekend? If you are then it would pay to study this photograph which has been sent in by one of our readers, who collected about two hundred Leatherjackets from rolls of turf that he had delivered recently.

The turf, about twenty square metres, had been ordered over the internet from what the customer had thought had been a reputable source.

Our Grass Clippings reader contacted us after the firm who supplied it (we know who but they shall remain anonymous) told their client 'that they did not feel that the level of Leatherjackets that had been collected, warranted a problem.' However, on seeing this photograph we were horrified that the client had been advised in such a manner.