{"id":18581,"date":"2017-06-20T17:34:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T16:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18581"},"modified":"2017-06-20T17:34:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T16:34:45","slug":"laid-back-lawns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/laid-back-lawns\/","title":{"rendered":"Laid-back Lawns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1519464177\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/1519464177.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>What Use is a Lawn<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A patch of grass is an Englishman&#8217;s lawn just as his home is his castle.<\/li>\n<li>A lawn can be used as a sanctuary to be cut and cossetted whilst escaping from life&#8217;s toils and troubles.<\/li>\n<li>Aesthetically it may be the central feature of a modern garden design or a natural backdrop to a more avant garde garden<\/li>\n<li>Lawns are for recreation including croquet,\u00c2\u00a0 children&#8217;s football, french cricket and golf with a plastic ball containing more holes than Hostas after a slug fest.<\/li>\n<li>Lawns can become a valuable habitat for wildlife so go easy on the chemical treatments.<\/li>\n<li>A place to stand admiring the rest of the garden or talking to the neighbors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14763 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/harlow-carr-2011-004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/harlow-carr-2011-004.jpg 480w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/harlow-carr-2011-004-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Avoiding Lawn Labours<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Not everyone wants to work of months on end to maintain a pristine lawn. It will take ages to get a billiard table lawn and then the weather will change.<\/li>\n<li>Decide what sort of lawn and effort you are prepared to accept.<\/li>\n<li>Lawns respond to TLC and if you can&#8217;t or don&#8217;t want to lavish your time on one then you can subcontract the work to a Green Finger expert .<\/li>\n<li>If you pay a gardener make sure they trim the edges regularly, nothing sets off a lawn better than a short back and sides.<\/li>\n<li>Left to grow a lawn will not become a floral meadow, more likely a weed infested jungle.<\/li>\n<li>Greying your garden with concrete, paving or decking is a recent activity but think of all the uses you will have to forgo.<\/li>\n<li>Ignore the roller above Grandads used one but you don&#8217;t need to risk a hernia unless you are a professional\u00c2\u00a0 groundsman.<\/li>\n<li>Turf can provide an \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcinstant lawn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00c2\u00a0 a bit expensive but less so than astroturf.<\/li>\n<li>If you enjoy lawn maintenance set yourself up in business to help others!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1519719574\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/1519719574.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Use is a Lawn A patch of grass is an Englishman&#8217;s lawn just as his home is his castle. A lawn can be used as a sanctuary to be cut and cossetted whilst escaping from life&#8217;s toils and troubles. Aesthetically it may be the central feature of a modern garden design or a natural backdrop to a more avant garde garden Lawns are for recreation including croquet,\u00c2\u00a0 children&#8217;s football, french cricket and golf with a plastic ball containing more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/laid-back-lawns\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}