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CameronG87
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Afternoon Chaps, newbie here.
I took up gardening last year & its nearly that time of year again.....I think?
1st port of call is when shall I start on my lawn & what shall I do? Lawn is quite patchy due to the weather.
Next, greenhouse will be coming out soon, whens good to start off my seedlings?
Lastly, is there a guide anywhere with advice on what to do & when in terms of time of year?
Like I say, last year waa my 1st gardening year and I must say my garden looked stunning, had no advice from anywhere, just went with instinct, grew everything from seed and re-planted around the garden as & when I thought my babies were ready t fly the greenhouse.
However, this year id like to put more planning / design / thought into my project.
Thanks in advance.
Cam
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Cam, welcome; I see you are quite far North. I would assume that you could get a frost as late as May 20th or thereabouts and then partially ignore that information. For really frost tender plants, take notice of it but for a lot of others, they will survive. My Pelagoniums (what we all call geraniums) go out around the 1st of April as I need the greenhouse space for young veg
and they all seem to survive.
I've been thinking about mowing the lawn for the last week; I would say go for that with the blades set high.
Seed packets give clear general advice about when to sow; I usually follow this.
This website has a "what to do now" section on it that updates every week. I find it very useful for flicking a few weeks ahead so I can plan what is going on.
http://www.gardenersworld.com/what-to-do-now/
Thanks guys, yeah im quite northern, northeast...
Cant cut the lawn at the moment due to the weather, is it too late to dig the whole thing over and plant grass seed?
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
thats the grass there.
Thanks guys, yeah im quite northern, northeast...
Cant cut the lawn at the moment due to the weather, is it too late to dig the whole thing over and plant grass seed?
I wouldn't do that this year. Scarify it with a rake to pull up any thatch/moss. Go all over it with a fork; just make loads of holes to bring air into the soil. Then gently disturb the earth where it is bald and sow some grass seed. Protect it with lots of twigs set at angles to keep the birds and humans off. Also consider making a path on the high traffic areas.
If you are making new beds in lawn areas, save those bits of grass and lay them where the lawn is bad, obviously at the same height as the rest of the lawn. There is a great technique for remedying bad edges (I hope I can explain it without pictures); take out a bit of turf where the lawn edge is bad and simply turn it aroun so the good turf is next the flower bed. Then rake up the surface a bit and sow your new seed.
There is a slight problem in getting grass seed to match. I was amused to see Kings Lynn Council gardeners got it wrong outside the Library where they got rid of 2 flower beds (financial cuts I guess) and sowed a much darker grass seed.
nowhere near as bad as mine. this months gw mag got step by step, tho mine may need more than even that
The main reason I considered turning it all over and sowing new seed was to avoid the problem of differing shades etc....
Like I said im fairly new to gardening which is why ive joined.
When is a goos time to sow grass seed?