Looks to me as if the older area of lawn was allowed to grow a bit too long and ‘tufty’ and then mowed a bit close, this exposing the base of the tufts which are pale because they’ve been in semi-darkness and therefore not photosynthesising.
It’s a good idea to raise the blade/cutter bar for the first few cuts of the season. 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Looks to me as if the older area of lawn was allowed to grow a bit too long and ‘tufty’ and then mowed a bit close, this exposing the base of the tufts which are pale because they’ve been in semi-darkness and therefore not photosynthesising.
It’s a good idea to raise the blade/cutter bar for the first few cuts of the season. 😊
Yes that’s exactly what’s happened it was the first cut and to be fair it did get a bit long
And if you take a look at the rest of the lawn you will see it is starving, its bright yellow.
And if new turf was laid on this it will be struggling as soon as it takes root.
So Grow more is 7% Nitrogen and at 20 grams a meter will only apply 14kg of Nitrogen per Hectare hardly rocket fuel.
It is not urea based feed at 34 to 46% N.
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As for the new turf give it a week or two and just give it a little feed, the rest of the lawn looks like it needs food, so add some , always apply on the light side you can always add more, but you can not take it off, hence some of the posts on here with burnt turf.
Slowly does it little and often. We called it spoon feeding in the Turf Trade.
I have this in the shed do you think this will be ok to put down? Tia 👍
Looks to me as if the older area of lawn was allowed to grow a bit too long and ‘tufty’ and then mowed a bit close, this exposing the base of the tufts which are pale because they’ve been in semi-darkness and therefore not photosynthesising.
It’s a good idea to raise the blade/cutter bar for the first few cuts of the season. 😊
Yes that’s exactly what’s happened it was the first cut and to be fair it did get a bit long
So the pale ‘yellow’ areas are due to the above rather than starvation. But it’s not a bad time to give a general feed to the established part of the lawn.
Aftercut will be fine … just apply carefully according to the instructions being careful not to overlap application when doing adjoining areas. If you’re not used to doing it, it’s useful to mark our the area in square metres with canes and strings. Over-application will burn the grass and you’ll be back to square one.
The moss- killer element will turn any moss black … it’ll look awful but panic not. You can rake it out, the grass will be able to grow and spread to fill the areas where the moss was and in a few weeks it’ll be looking sooo much better. 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I was simply answering the query about the new bit, because that's what was asked The other bit certainly doesn't look great, but if you're scalping it, that won't help it's health. If you're in one of the very dry parts of the UK, that certainly doesn't help good growth either. Some decent rainfall would probably improve it. We have the opposite problem here. It can often be difficult to get the ground/grass dry enough to cut it once it gets going, so we regularly have no option but to cut it wet. Food gets washed out quickly too, so it can be a waste of money. Different problems for different locations
Be very careful of the application, as @Dovefromabove says. If the ground is dry, wait until it isn't, regardless of how it looks just now. When it comes to grass, we probably get more queries about burnt lawns than anything else at this time of year, because of over application, and/or in unsuitable conditions.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Looks fine to me I take it you had some rain when you were away? The original part has greened up well. If you wanted to feed the main bit I expect it would be fine. Doesn't look as if it needs anything much though
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The other bit certainly doesn't look great, but if you're scalping it, that won't help it's health. If you're in one of the very dry parts of the UK, that certainly doesn't help good growth either. Some decent rainfall would probably improve it. We have the opposite problem here. It can often be difficult to get the ground/grass dry enough to cut it once it gets going, so we regularly have no option but to cut it wet. Food gets washed out quickly too, so it can be a waste of money. Different problems for different locations
Be very careful of the application, as @Dovefromabove says. If the ground is dry, wait until it isn't, regardless of how it looks just now.
When it comes to grass, we probably get more queries about burnt lawns than anything else at this time of year, because of over application, and/or in unsuitable conditions.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I take it you had some rain when you were away? The original part has greened up well.
If you wanted to feed the main bit I expect it would be fine. Doesn't look as if it needs anything much though
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...