Seed or Turf 400m2 garden

[Gone West]

On 16/09/2025 at 16:12, Bramco said:

a robot lawn mower

We have a garden with six areas of grass and a height difference of 16m between the highest and lowest points in the garden. Would you mind giving some details about your grassed areas and the type of lawn mower you have. We have been looking at the different types and we have a very poor mobile signal here which doesn't help.

[Bramco]

1 minute ago, Gone West said:

We have a garden with six areas of grass and a height difference of 16m between the highest and lowest points in the garden. Would you mind giving some details about your grassed areas and the type of lawn mower you have. We have been looking at the different types and we have a very poor mobile signal here which doesn't help.

 

We have a big flat 1 acre plot with the house about a third of the way towards the front. There's a grass strip down one side of the house that the mower can get down to get from front to back.

 

I think most mowers use GPS for positioning and the mobile signal enables apps on your phone, so not important for navigation. Ours also has wifi.  We have a Husqvarna that 3 years ago was the apparently the best and probably still is - you see them in a lot of commercial situations. 

 

We have our plot split into 4 sections and have schedules for each section, you can also set different cutting heights for each section etc. 

 

In hindsight we could have bought 2 smaller mowers, one for the front and one for the back which might have been a bit cheaper but the big one we have does the job well. It's even got headlights that turn on at dusk!!!

[Gone West]

@Bramco Many thanks, that's useful information. Will check out Husqvarna and we also have considered having two smaller mowers, so glad to know it's not just us!

[iMCaan]

20 hours ago, Thorfun said:

damn that's a lot! we paid £260 +Vat for 20T of top-soil (grade B). grade A was more expensive but it was just grade B mixed with manure which we didn't think we needed for a lawn, especially as we put manure in the subsoil.

 

i suggest phoning around. we got ours from a local muck-away company who processed their own top-soil through a machine that screeded to 8mm.

Shocking, my prices were taken from Mone Bros website. That's a huge difference. I was hesitant at first to ask about the pricing. Good thing I did.   Thanks @Thorfun and Buildhub community.