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Asking for a friend.
Is there a turf shortage I didn't know about?
Odd! Message not showing. Is this a thing?
Edit: Second post sorted it.😄
Turf has a pretty short shelf (Rolled up on pallet) life. Can't see it being a smart thing to stock at the best of times.
There was some outside local B&M when I went past this morning.
I needed quite a bit more recently but seemed to be no shortage when I ordered 2 pallets of turf for the garden last week, only needed a day's notice to cut it and put it on the lorry.
Cheers guys. Not seen any at my local HB/ B&Q strangely.
Want some for my lads hnew rented place... Instead of the trampled dirt there at the moment.
Order some from RoLawn.
Going off at a slight tangent...
The world of gardening has been overtaken by 'artificial grass'.
Production is environmentally damaging; site preparation - if done 'properly' - is noisy, dirty and environmentally destructive.
Once laid and nailed into place it suppresses any natural growth; dandelions for bees to get stuck into? No chance of that.
^^ I can't stand artificial grass tbh. I hate cutting the real stuff etc and the general "hassle" but it's just not the same to sit on/look at/ let your kid play on the plastic stuff.
Yeah, I agree basically.👍
I was at homebase last week and i saw a pallet of it at the door outside so I guess so. I think prob best to phone as there was just the one pallet, so stocks might be limited.
Failing that theres always midnight trips to the park 😉
Lol, I'll leave that as a worse case scenario, the park option that is.
Yeah, best to give them a call I suppose. Cheers guys as always.
Got some from Homebase over a week ago, 5 rolls for £20 vs £9 a roll at the local garden centre. Only needed 6 for a repair so uneconomical to order online.
I timed it well as they had had two fresh pallets delivered within the hour. Checked every roll to make sure it want yellowing. The older pallet they had by the front door looked battered and yellow so I wouldn’t have touched it.
Been down 10 days now and well rooted after a daily water.
in my experience it has a really fine net/mesh in it to hold it together when you unroll it, and you can end up with this web coming to surface after a while.
Yuck. Perfect time for laying seed.
Yep, walked past a pallet of turf outside our local Homebase yesterday....
it has a really fine net/mesh in it to hold it together when you unroll it, and you can end up with this web coming to surface after a while.
Revelation! Lived here 9 years and wonder why our lawn has fishing line stuff coming through. I now know!
I don't think there's a shortage per se, but I was looking for some a couple of weeks ago and all the local indy garden centres said they've stopped stocking it as most is binned before anyone buys it.
in my experience it has a really fine net/mesh in it to hold it together when you unroll it
This was the other reason I didn't get it from the garden centre! Homebase stuff definitely plastic free as advertised online/in store. Their stock checker is also reasonably accurate IME.
Local garden centre I got some from last Autumn had a regular delivery every Friday afternoon of a couple of pallets full and took reservations over the phone throughout the week for people to come and collect on the Saturday morning. They said that any left unreserved was normally all gone by the end of the Saturday. I guess it's not the sort of thing that lasts for ling once cut so they don't want to overstock it.
Skip the DIY shop and garden centre and give your LTS a call?
Got some from a garden centre last September and cut it into sections for repairs and (fortunately) there wasn't any mesh in that.
My local B&Q had some on a pallet about 2 weeks ago. Is it just the cold start to spring thats holding them back at the moment?
I got a load from B&Q last summer, it was starting to dry out so they were flogging it off for 5p a roll. Did a massive section of lawn for about £2. It was perfect after a few days of watering.
I hadn't seen any when going past B&Q so ordered some from my friendly garden supplier. Works about about £4 a roll, which isn't much cheaper than B&Q and the turf itself isn't necessarily any better (have laid both, the B&Q stuff, even when nearly a week old off the pallet was fine) but that includes delivery.
Skip the DIY shop and garden centre and give your LTS a call?
If you are in their patch then give https://www.gardner-landscapes.co.uk/turf-supplies a call.
£2.30 m2 beats anywhere else and its good stuff.
Got some from Homebase a couple of weeks ago. Called them up to ask what day the turf got delivered, then phoned up on the day to confirm then collected it when it was at its 'freshest'.
Failing that theres always midnight trips to the park 😉
No, for God's sake dont do that!
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It will be full of weeds, you'll get much nicer turf from a golf course