Has anybody any experience of planting a wildflower lawn?
I know there is wildflower turf available and that you can also plant with seeds.
I have a large lawn which is both sloping and undulating. It has som fruit trees in it, and is currently rough mossy grass which has been strimmed once a year or so for the last few years.
The size is about 200ft by 300ft.
I will be making a path or two across and so can divide the area up into sections.
I think the size would make using turf very expensive.
I want to take an area and do a test.
I'm also not that keen on digging up the grass, but appreciate that I may have to. I had thought that I could set out an area cover with cardboard and then cover that with soil/compost. This would help to even out the level of the lawn. Then plant the seeds on top of this.
I also understand that it's necessary to mow the lawn at a key point, and am wondering how easy it is to know when to do that.
Any advice gratefully received.
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ElasticFirecracker · 08/03/2017 15:32
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