Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Fu Manchu's Guide to Laying Turf & More 133Aug 15, 2011 7:56 pm Re: Fu Manchu's Guide to Laying Turf & More 135Aug 16, 2011 12:33 am I reckon you will be pleasantly happy with how that comes on in the coming years compared with how other gardens in the street have ![]() That is a heap of hard work that's been done ![]() Re: Fu Manchu's Guide to Laying Turf & More 136Aug 16, 2011 5:35 am Wrexter... tell me about it! We ordered 5cubic metres and got 8-10 as "once the truck is full its difficult to empty part loads".......... but we managed to do our place, the neighbours and only had a trailerload left that went to my folks.... and one trailerload to the tip which had stuff we picked out.... Fu... not so much hard work as rather time consuming, am lucky I had my dad to lend a hand at times! All thats left now is to plant a grasstree in the front section. Looking forward to seeing the benefits of my investment this summer and the years after! Re: Fu Manchu's Guide to Laying Turf & More 137Aug 18, 2011 12:26 am Fu, can you give me any advice on vertimowing/dethatching? Should I get the professionals do do it, hire one, or just do it on the cheap with an old victa and new blades. Looking to do this late October, get some good fungi/bacteria, organic soil, saturaid, seasol, molasses. Any tips? Re: Fu Manchu's Guide to Laying Turf & More 138Aug 18, 2011 12:55 am For yours, do the victa and new blades. I reckon you'll be fine to top dress it though. Or top dress on spot with a bag of something, see how you go and if you're not happy, go the vertimow. For a vertimow, you will need a small skip and just hire a vertimower. Wait till the stuff is growing again though before you do it. Re: Fu Manchu's Guide to Laying Turf & More 139Aug 18, 2011 12:56 am I might be able to pop round and take a look if ya want. Re: Fu Manchu's Guide to Laying Turf & More 140Aug 19, 2011 6:24 pm Wanted to say a big thank you to Fu for wealth of information here. And to wrexter for summarising it so that lawn prep doesn't seem quite so daunting! We've just spread 3 cubes of piggy post, 7 bags of zeolite and 6 bags of spongolite onto our 90 sq m of western australian sand that we're prepping for turf. Hanging off adding the Bentonite till just before we cultivate the soil (rotary hoe booked for Tuesday) because of expected rain - was worried it might clump up too much before we get a chance to mix it all through. I've booked the hoe for 4 hours (can't help but childishly giggle at that). Can anyone tell me whether that should be enough time to do 90sq m? My hubby's going to drive it & is fairly handy with things like that. TIA!! We are still mid build, so very recent, quotes received 13/6/2024. We haven't accepted ours yet, waiting for a better idea on completion time for our build. 3 17307 I'm about to put down some Merbau. Is it necessary to oil underneath the boards before laying? 0 15443 Hey There. No problems re jumping in. My original question was "should I have waterproofed" the concrete slab before putting batons down. We have been told we should… 7 21202 |