I am ready to cry... We have moved into our current house over 5 years ago and the garden was always very beautiful. The lawn on the other hand was 'so-so' - bumpy in places, uneven growth, but nothing a good lawnmower and some regular feeding could not make 'ok'. As I was working full time and, most importantly, traveled abroad for most of my work, I employed gardener to help out. Which he did, until two years ago. The lawn was ok.
Last year early in the season I decided to look after the garden myself and started with scarifying, which turned to be disastrous for the lawn. I think that I did significantly weakened the plants as all throughout the summer the weeds were popping up in places they have never been seen before, there were bald patches (subsequently reseeded) and the grass was much thinner throughout. Even after a nice cut it looked rather sad.
In August we took a puppy and now she is adding her 'marks' in the form of urine patches (nothing we can do about those) and a great number of deep holes all throughout (we can supervise her and stop digging but atm it looks bad).
Now that it is the time to start cutting the grass again, my heart is sinking. What are my options for making the lawn decent again? Is it only a complete overhaul? I think I am happy to go as far as taking everything up and reseeding or returfing it, but what are the costs involved? Can someone recommend a company/gardener who can just come over and do the new lawn from scratch? Should I try to work iwth the current lawn 'slowly-slowly'? Oh, yeah, I am 16 weeks pregnant and have a disabled dh, so the amount of work should take this into account. Having screwed up last summer with scarifying I am also afraid to mess it up further.
Oh yeah, I recon it is about 300-350m2. Any ideas?
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Please help me with transforming my lawn (nr Guildford)
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bemybebe · 02/04/2011 14:34
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