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Does anyone know of a good Autumn liquid lawn food that I can use this Autumn to keep my lawn green until spring? I used to use Benlate on my lawn in the autumn mainly because I keep getting small circular patches of diseased grass. This not only

their lawn was dead (well, mine did look dead) when I wrote about drought damage in the garden in my July blog, but didn't I tell you it would recover once rain came? Not that I'm feeling smug with my prediction. It's just that plants are great survivors

Mow your lawn regularly from spring onwards to encourage healthy, lush-looking grass and to deter weeds. When the grass is growing strongly in summer it will need to be mown at least once a week; but during periods of drought leave it uncut

Dug up these in badly compacted lawn today.  Anyone know what they are and if they indicate a problem or not?   Small lawn has been sown two years in a row, April 2010 and April/May 2011.  Whenever it gets to Spring more than half the lawn

How do you get rid of stinging nettles in lawns? I love walking bare foot on grass and they ventured onto the lawn when it was neglected for two years.  Dan x Use a selective weedkiller for treating broad-leaf weeds like dandelions- it will not harm

I had a turf lawn laid in November in my front garden which is north facing. The turf appears to have taken well and despite no sun has grown several inches. Weather in East Devon has been very mild.  The lawn is now looking a little yellow. I

Could anyone advise the best treatment for removing quite an infested area of lawn full of buttercups. I have tried manually removing them without much success so may need to resort to chemicals. A standard lawn weedkiller should remove them, e

Hi can anyone help please, ihave turfted heather in my lawn, last year i cut out a section and replaced with turf it has returned again and is popping up all over my lawn, i have also tried 4 in 1 as well Hi bluejan What is tufted heather? I googled

I rotavated our garden 11 days ago. The following day I sanded, added compost and lawn seed. I gently watered a couple of times as instructed on the lawn seed pack. 2 days after seeding it bucketed down for 48 hours! No sign of germination yet

Can anyone recommend a good liquid or granular lawn fertiliser please? I noticed in 'around the garden' that I should be doing this round about now . I have used various brands over the years and haven't a particular favourite. I was curious