Morning Light: The Fetchland Gardening Wire

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Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) Feb 2023 4:40pm, 18 Feb 2023 36,934 posts	0 Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) We had a new lawn laid last spring, the squirrel have dug holes all over, it’s a proper mess! Ah well, it’s just grass.
Columba Feb 2023 6:33pm, 19 Feb 2023 22,124 posts	0 Columba If your lawn is just grass you're fortunate. Mine seems to be at least 50% moss.
UltraDunc Feb 2023 10:41pm, 19 Feb 2023 16,336 posts	0 UltraDunc Mines 99% moss , maybe I’ll returf this spring
3M Feb 2023 10:58pm, 19 Feb 2023 20,555 posts	0 3M Did I say my lawn was grass? Sorry to have misled you! (The water stands on the lawn when it's wet for a few days. Ideal moss growing environment for most of the winter!)
D2 Feb 2023 9:15am, 20 Feb 2023 13,021 posts	0 D2 I like moss; its green and from a distance can be mistaken for grass
Hanneke Feb 2023 9:22am, 20 Feb 2023 99,700 posts	0 Hanneke Anything green will do. I don't have lawn. My paths are largely plantain, hawksbit and dandelions. Nicely green 😎
Fragile Do Not Bend Feb 2023 9:25am, 20 Feb 2023 10,764 posts	0 Fragile Do Not Bend Same here, I don’t care as long as it’s green, ideally with a few splashes of colour.
3M Feb 2023 1:23pm, 20 Feb 2023 20,567 posts	0 3M I agree about the "any green is good" view - as long as the plants don't self seed into my veg bed. Give it a few months - the soil beneath my "lawn" will be baked out, the birch tree will have sucked the remaining drops of moisture from it, and it'll be brown and crispy again! We live on what is a "prehistoric lake bed" - so it's basically clay for about 18 inches down at least. As a result it's pretty impervious to moisture - it sits on top, and doesn't really soak away very quickly. The flower and veg beds don't come into their own until they've been there a good few years and had lots of compost and organic matter worked in.
Hanneke Feb 2023 1:35pm, 20 Feb 2023 99,707 posts	0 Hanneke That sounds very tricky 3M!
Ocelot Spleens Feb 2023 2:17pm, 20 Feb 2023 36,345 posts	0 Ocelot Spleens Pesky Magpies digging up my onion sets.