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New Lawn Issues

andyr357andyr357 Posts: 1
in Problem solving
Hi
recently moved into a new house. Been here a month and the new turfed lawn has been done about 2-3 months. Looked really green and thick when we arrived and I’ve been cutting on the highest setting weekly but have noticed that despite a lot of watering by us for the first few weeks and all the rain in July it’s starting to go a bit yellow and seems to be thin and a bit straw like in places. 

Looking for some advice to keep it healthy as I’m useless with lawns normally and so want to get this one right. 

Do I need to water more ? Aerate ? Fertilise the lawn ? Any help you can offer would be appreciated. I’ve added some pictures to show the lawn as it it today. 


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  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    What do you want it to look like?

    Looks almost perfect to me. I give  mine an autumn feed with a slow release lawn fertiliser (food only).  I do moss killing and weed killing, if needed, as separate operations.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • CeresCeres Posts: 2,698
    It's still getting established. It needs to get its roots down so don't worry about it just yet.
  • 1sthomegarden1sthomegarden Posts: 22
    It looks pretty good from the pic tbf. The yellow means it could need a little bit of Nitrogen added to the soil - but not too much at this time of year. An application of autumn lawn feed would help to green it up.
  • anthony.haley06996anthony.haley06996 Posts: 6
    I would be doing cartwheels for a lawn like that.
    Mine is just a weed haven.
    Grass will yellow quickly and green quickly. I would not worry too much.

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