Turf recommendations

 


Hi - hope someone can help!

I'm not much of a gardener (or haven't been in the past due to my
frankly tiny
garden) but I'm just about to move into a bigger house and
the lawn is a bit of
a mess. I've got a young son and I'd like him to
enjoy the garden in future so
I'm thinking about laying a new lawn.

So... am I best off laying my lawn myself? I've seen a company (Rolawn)
who sell
turf online (http://www.rolawndirect.co.uk/ ) that one of my
more
gardening-centric friends tells me is pretty good. There's an
online turf-laying
guide there which makes it all look pretty easy, but
am I letting myself in for
loads of problems or should I just get a
professional landscaper in (given my
track record of killing things!)

Thanks in advance for any help and advice!


--
carps

 


carps Wrote:

tiny garden) but I'm just about to move into a bigger house and

> the lawn is a

bit of a mess. I've got a young son and I'd like him to

> enjoy the garden in

future so I'm thinking about laying a new lawn.

sell turf online (http://www.rolawndirect.co.uk/ ) that one of my

> more

gardening-centric friends tells me is pretty good. There's an

> online

turf-laying guide there which makes it all look pretty easy, but

> am I letting

myself in for loads of problems or should I just get a

> professional landscaper

in (given my track record of killing things!)

Hi there, buying online isn't that scary there are plenty of forums for
advise
on how to do it and basically its very easy! check out
www.turfshop.co.uk they
have a wider selection of turf.
good luck

turf doc


--
turf doc

 


If you have a young son, his idea of enjoying the garden is almost
certain to include football or some other equally exciting ways to
convert grass into mud.  If you re-lay the lawn, you are going to want
to cherish it, and find it really hard when he and a group of his
friends want to charge around it on a sunny autumn day after a good
day's rain.

I would consider spending a season simply mowing it regularly and see
what improvement you effect with that. If you're not happy, you can
always re-turf it later.
--
Kay

 

K wrote:

Yep. Turf is usually a bad option from several points of view. And a
professional landscaper is even more rarely what you want -- even if you
find one of the few who have a clue. Try K's "just mow it regularly"
approach first. If you buy some weed-killing and/or fertiliser granules,
go the extra yard and buy a cheap spreader at the same time: it'll only
be about a tenner, and will do a much more even job than broadcasting.
If you still don't like what you've got in the autumn, get back to us.

--
Mike.

 

Mike Lyle wrote:
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I think that is unfair.

In my experience there are plenty of quality landscapers out there. The
people who have problems are those who go to the cheap cowboys and then
complain an about he quality.

 It's a bit like shopping at Lidl, then complaining that the food is not as
good as Waitrose..

Pay the right price and the quality service IS there.

pk