Whatever the gardening royalty say about a lawn being herbaceous abuse, I’m still rather wedded to my sward. This year, with a wedding to be set on it, I’d rather like it to be the best it can be.
With this in mind, the current Easter weekend has seen the Lad (actually he’s a highly experienced gardener who’s something of a lawn guru, but hey, age counts for something, doesn’t it?” and me prepping and primping the lawn so it has the best chance to be as good as it can be come August.
This operation takes place twice a year, April and October and the spring event comprises:
a cut
a scarify
another cut
an hollow-tined aerate
a raking
a covering with top dressing
seeding (which you can’t really see). A billion micro clover seeds went down this year or something ludicrous…
In two or three weeks, when the new grass has germinated we will roll.
It now looks a bit of a mess, especially the two smaller sections but a bot of rain or watering and it’ll soon look peachy.
Thanks to the Lad and Dog, natch…
TanGental 
A beautiful garden. It looks like a lot of hard work!
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A beautiful garden like yours also requires a lot of work. But to look at your results, it so pays off!
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Marvellous work. You’ll be able to hire it out to Surrey CCC soon
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Is that the “Lads” sandwich Dog is after or has the “Lad” stolen the Dogs lunch. ….Garden looking lovely đŸ’œđŸ’œđŸ’œđŸ’œ
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Glorious Geoff. So worth all the hard work.
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Hard work pays off! We can’t do all that work ourselves, so we have a guy do it. Your lawn is gorgeous!
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Dads prize winning poem
Adam, the earliest gardener,
Delighted when Eve was born,
Felt Eden still needed something,
And so he created the lawn.
And we, his gardening descendants,
Agree, whenever we meet,
That without a lawn in the garden,
A garden isn’t complete.
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What a huge amount of work! I do hope you go out there regularly and enjoy the fruits of everyone’s labor, including the hardest- working of all – Dog.
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It is going to be beautiful. I can tell.
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So full of technical terms, but at least I’ve learned from the pictures that top dressing = white dog.
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Yes, sorry about that. It’s a grass geek thing…
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As I read this my husband is out digging up half of the front yard to remove zoyzia grass which for some reason he detests and cannot understand why anyone would plant it on purpose. Then he will roll it down and reseed. The patch by the street was his previous project. He actually kept going outside to talk to the “little seedies.” I shudder to think what lies ahead! Men and their lawns.
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I am on first name terms with my clover and god parent to some errant lawn daisies… it keeps the grass sprites at bay…
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Your secret is safe with me because I don’t want to encourage him!
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