@TattyMac sounds like your ‘groundsman’ doesn’t know what he’s doing. By spreading too much seed you create root competition between each seed as they attempt to grow. Meaning some will grow while others fail. If you worked out the size of the area that you wanted to turn into lawn and bought enough seed to cover said area then you shouldn’t have needed to have bought more. Your ‘groundsman’ is an incompetent idiot.🤦🏼♂️
@TattyMac sounds like your ‘groundsman’ doesn’t know what he’s doing. By spreading too much seed you create root competition between each seed as they attempt to grow. Meaning some will grow while others fail. If you worked out the size of the area that you wanted to turn into lawn and bought enough seed to cover said area then you shouldn’t have needed to have bought more. Your ‘groundsman’ is an incompetent idiot.🤦🏼♂️
I did as you say by measuring the area and multiplying by the recommended coverage on the packet. But he went off and did it his way.
Kent near the white cliffs. Always learning and often the hard way.
@TattyMac sounds like your ‘groundsman’ doesn’t know what he’s doing. By spreading too much seed you create root competition between each seed as they attempt to grow. Meaning some will grow while others fail. If you worked out the size of the area that you wanted to turn into lawn and bought enough seed to cover said area then you shouldn’t have needed to have bought more. Your ‘groundsman’ is an incompetent idiot.🤦🏼♂️
I did as you say by measuring the area and multiplying by the recommended coverage on the packet. But he went off and did it his way.
Then I wouldn’t employ him.
Either he’s responsible for the whole job and that includes supplying the seed or at least specifying the amount you should get; or he’s following your instructions …. He can’t have it both ways. 😠
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That looks perfectly ok to me. Just keep mowing it … not too short. It’ll be fine. You’re surely not expecting a Wimbledon tennis court or a bowling green? 😉
Bit by bit you can fill in any dips or tyre tracks with a little sifted topsoil at a time. In a couple of years you’ll have a greensward that gives you much pleasure and you’ll have forgotten about all this anxiety.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Well if this is normal then I'll continue removing the stones, levelling and patching the bare areas. In one area I worked on I overseeded bare with dwarf seed and then covered it with a fleece. Yes the large ryegrass turned into monsters but the dwarf held it's on in several places. I think I will over seed with dwarf because it fills in the gaps and darkens the area nicely.
Kent near the white cliffs. Always learning and often the hard way.
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I did as you say by measuring the area and multiplying by the recommended coverage on the packet. But he went off and did it his way.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Tyre tacks, scree, dips,
years you’ll have a greensward that gives you much pleasure and you’ll have forgotten about all this anxiety.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.