A bit of repair work was required on the round gardens lawn today. The grass in this area of the garden never comes through the winter very well. This is mainly caused by the fact that during winter this part of our garden gets no sun at all. You may well think why doesn’t he just redesign the area and do away with the lawn. Well I have considered doing this, but it comes away so well in the summer, I just resign myself to give it a little TLC at this time of year. What I do is, first of all, fork it all over to improve drainage. Then scarify the lawn with a spring tine rake. I give the first feed of the season, and finally sprinkle some grass seed. In two or three weeks it will be looking great again. Also finished treating the decking area with cuprinol preservative and getting it all ship shape for summer. Here is a picture of our decked patio spruced up.
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