{"id":3768,"date":"2020-11-28T18:45:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T18:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3768"},"modified":"2020-11-28T18:45:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T18:45:05","slug":"restoring-an-old-lawn-with-one-of-our-mygardenteam-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/restoring-an-old-lawn-with-one-of-our-mygardenteam-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"Restoring an old lawn with one of our MyGardenTeam clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_5866.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3770\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_5866.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_5868-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3773\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_5868-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_5869.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3771\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_5869.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLawns with a good mix of grass species but have bare patches and an uneven surface can often be restored by top dressing and reseeding.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The pictures show us one of our clients working with GardenAdvice gardeners to sieve stone soil through some wire fencing to remove the stones to create a level surface.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nYou can use a hand seize but it takes a lot longer.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nOnce levelled and over seeded with a suitable grass seed mixture<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>in the autumn and winter up until xmas we often use a thin plastic covering to assist in the germination of the grass seed and the recovery of existing grass plants.<br \/>\nAs with all work on lawns now its also worth taking the time to check the lawn for leather jacket and chafer grub as these lawn pests are now becoming a problem in the UK<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nLearn about your garden with a one day GardenAdvice gardening course<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-courses\/\">https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-courses\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Lawns with a good mix of grass species but have bare patches and an uneven surface can often be restored by top dressing and reseeding.\u00a0 The pictures show us one of our clients&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-head-gardener"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}