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Blackish grass

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It’ll be a lot greener by next spring when we’ve had the winter rains  … but we’ve decided to sow part of it with wild flowers to keep the weeds company … 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It's not a disaster. It's just what happens most summers.😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited September 2022
    Ours is a lot worse this year than it has ever been … temperatures here reached 40C on several days!  It’s been crazy. 

    Our lawn goes brown most summers ‘tis true … but not like this. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Ours is like that too. It's normal for a dry summer. From the description I was expecting much worse.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • WoodgreenWoodgreen Posts: 1,273
    If the OP lives in Cumbria as I do, there may be cause for concern. 😉

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited September 2022
    Dovefromabove said:

    Bear in mind that most of us have lawns that are brown and scrubby at the moment
    Only in certain areas of the UK. Where abouts are you Zak?
  • zakzakzakzak Posts: 178
    North Yorkshire. Near Pickering 
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited September 2022
    "But lots of areas that are black. Looks like there's been a bonfire"

    As mentioned upthread if it looks like there has been a fire, that is usually over use of "weed and feed" solutions.

    Just rubbish soil full of weeds.

    You would need decent soil to make a decent lawn. Could you do something else with the plot? Is it a new build? There is no point in throwing more money at it if you've got very little to work with.

  • zakzakzakzak Posts: 178
    Not a new build.
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