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Postby Arborbridge » September 24th, 2021, 11:05 am
The odd thing is, that I've concluded the best part of my lawn is the area populated by clover. It is a rich green all the time, doesn't grew too long and grows densely enough to keep the moss out, in the main.
So I've decided I quite like it, especially when we sometimes get the bonus of a few flowers too. In our old house, on chalk, we had a patch of harebells flowering in August, and they were strictly to be preserved and mown around.
This year, I left a tiny patch of grass uncut beyond the birch tree which shadows all. It started as no mow May, but became my deliberately scruffy bit, much to Mrs Arb's annoyance as it's in front of one her herbaceous borders. However, it hardly grew at all though it did throw up some nice grassy seed heads which look good in the wind when lit by the sun from behind.
I treated the bulk of the lawn last spring by a severe raking out of moss and some 4 in 1 stuff. That seemed to do the trick and killed the moss, much to my surprise, and there's no obvious moss this year. I also took the opportunity when it was wet and soggy of aerating the lawn. I have one of those hollow tine forks with about six prongs. On the chalk it was hopeless, only going in about 2 inches, but on clay when wet it seems much better. Mrs Arb doesn't like the cores hanging around, though. After doing the aeration I spread a few bags of top dressing sold for the purpose, though one needs mountains of the stuff to make any difference, so it was probably just a token effect.
Arb.