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Dead area on 3 year old lawn
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Hello everyone. I wonder if you can help me please with a problem on my front north facing lawn?
Three years ago I had an area of my garden turfed. It had previously been partly shrubbed area and partly gravelled parking area (scalpings and gravel) which were very weedy and difficult to manage. I thought if it was turfed I could just mow it and keep it neat.
I've attached before an after photos - and it looked nice and I watered it. The problem started the next year in the summer. The lawn got very dry and dead-looking in the part that use to be gravel (you can see a virtual line - my photo only shows part of the offending area as I was taking a picture of the new lavender wall) and then grew again when it got damper.
Same again this year except it was so hot that it was practically dust. After the rain it has grown quite well again but it is still a little sparse in areas. I also had a tree planted in the "gravelly" area a few months after the lawn was laid (which is very special to me) and I don't want to lose it.
Obviously the problem is that the so-called gardener who laid the lawn for me didn't put topsoil down and my beloved flowering tree is also thirsty.
My question is, short of slabbing the whole thing over or re-lifting an re-laying the turf, is there any easier way of rectifying the situation so that that the lawn in that part is healthy?
Thank you.
Three years ago I had an area of my garden turfed. It had previously been partly shrubbed area and partly gravelled parking area (scalpings and gravel) which were very weedy and difficult to manage. I thought if it was turfed I could just mow it and keep it neat.
I've attached before an after photos - and it looked nice and I watered it. The problem started the next year in the summer. The lawn got very dry and dead-looking in the part that use to be gravel (you can see a virtual line - my photo only shows part of the offending area as I was taking a picture of the new lavender wall) and then grew again when it got damper. Same again this year except it was so hot that it was practically dust. After the rain it has grown quite well again but it is still a little sparse in areas. I also had a tree planted in the "gravelly" area a few months after the lawn was laid (which is very special to me) and I don't want to lose it.
Obviously the problem is that the so-called gardener who laid the lawn for me didn't put topsoil down and my beloved flowering tree is also thirsty.
My question is, short of slabbing the whole thing over or re-lifting an re-laying the turf, is there any easier way of rectifying the situation so that that the lawn in that part is healthy?
Thank you.
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