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Fibre-glass switchers - your personal experience please
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Hi there. I have a fine lawn in its first year since laying as turves in the spring. Generally quite happy with it - apart from worm casts.
I'm considering either a switcher or chemical treatment - happy to "switch" but need to know if switchers work (pretty much) as well on wet casts as they do on dry casts?
Any experiences shared would be very welcome...
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Worms are needed for a healthy soil structure.
Chemical treatments to kill worms are not permitted to the home gardener.
https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=806
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
To reiterate, I am looking for people's experiences with switchers only (I am aware of worms' usefulness, never said anything about killing them, and use of brooms to attempt to remove - which in my experience is next to useless)
Thanks in advance.
I have no experience with the fibreglass switchers - I've always found the traditional birch besom to work perfectly well for me.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
What did you mean by 'chemical treatment' in your first post then?
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I managed to make the quote thing work! 
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No personal experience of them, but a guy on Gardeners World, who is obsessive about his lawn uses one. From that I guess that it works well.