Grow from seed.
Below is the journey of cultivated turf grown somewhere in Eastern England to a local garden we saw a lawn being "installed".
If common sense had anything to do with it, the journey wouldn't need to take place at all.
After all, we buy in grown cultivated turf when growing grass is something we can all quite easily, if we're a little patient.
But common sense does not prevail.
Instead cultivated turf has to travel miles. The garden it is to go in requires loads of preparation.
It's no wonder most of us put up with the lawn we have, when there is a better lawn to be had if we just grow one.
In contrast, a lawn grown in your garden, travels no distance.
If it grows well, it's a very happy lawn, with the right grass type being grown, and if it doesn't too well, you can bet there is a better grass type you need to introduce.
A lawn grown from seed in your garden, is YOUR lawn, like really YOURS. A lawn that matches, and is grown for the use you want of it.
That we think is such different thinking.
And, this is a really odd thing, it costs, a lawn grown in your garden, a fraction of having a lawn "installed" from somewhere in the UK.
Now that's what we call at All Gardening FUBAR.
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Here's the cultivated turf journey from grower to garden, every mile, every turn.
It's Bonkers.
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Start at Chediston St
Continue straight onto Chediston St
Continue onto B1123
Turn right onto Christmas Ln
Turn right onto Harleston Rd/B1123
Continue to follow B1123
Turn left onto Withersdale Rd/B1123
Turn right onto Harleston Rd/B1116
Continue to follow B1116
Turn left onto Wells' Ln
Turn left onto A143
At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit and stay on A143
At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit and stay on A143
Turn right onto Fornham Rd
At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto A134
At the roundabout, take the 4th exit onto Compiegne Way/A134
At St Saviours Interchange, take the 5th exit onto the A14 slip road to Newmarket
Merge onto A14
Continue on A14. Take A1(M), A1 and A1(M) to Wattle Syke/A659 in West Yorkshire.
Take exit 45 from A1(M)
Keep right to stay on A14, follow signs for The
Midlands/Cambridge
Use any lane to merge onto Huntingdon Rd/A14
via the slip road to The Midlands/Huntingdon
Continue to follow A14
Use the left lane to take the slip road to A1
Keep left at the fork and merge onto A1
Continue onto A1(M) (signs for The N/Peterborough)
Continue onto A1
Continue straight onto Worksop Rd/A1
Continue to follow A1
Keep right to continue on A1(M), follow signs for Doncaster
Continue onto A1
Continue onto A1(M) (signs for Wetherby/Manchester/Leeds/M62)
Keep left to stay on A1(M)
At junction 45, take the A659 exit to Wetherby/A168/Otley
Take A168 and A661 to Duchy Rd in Harrogate
At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto Wattle
Syke/A659
At the roundabout, take the 3rd exit onto A168
At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto Boston
Rd/A661
Continue to follow A661
At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto Market Pl/A661
Continue to follow A661
At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto Spofforth Hill/A661
Continue to follow A661
At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto Harrogate Rd/A661
Continue to follow A661
At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto Wetherby Rd/A661
2.3 mi At Empress Roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto Skipton Rd/A59
Turn left onto Grove Rd Turn left onto King's Rd Turn right onto Coppice Dr Turn left onto Ripon Rd/A61
Turn right onto Duchy Rd
Go through 1 roundabout
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226 Miles
4 hours and 10 mins