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Keep lawn looking nice
chris_elevate
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Hi,
Have just moved into a house and the front lawn is looking nice and green and in good condition but the back is a bit patchy and lacking in colour. Any tips and advice please?
Do I need to feed it and water it much? I have a hose but would need to buy a sprinkler. Oh it's also had a dozen creamy coloured mushrooms spring up in the last 5 days too.
Thanks for any help and advice you can give.
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It looks to be about ??300 per year to get treatment. This includes: moss killer now. Solid tine aerating in Jan/Feb. and then every 9 weeks a fertiliser.
I also live in an area where the chafer beetle has laid grub that kills the WHOLE lawn. He said some people have annual spring treatment but if they are spotted (easy to spot) then you can just treat (and lay) at that time. He said the treatment is by license only so I can do this myself - is he right?
The key things he said are:
1. Due to it being sandy ground solid tine is better than hollow for me (hollow more appropriate when clay ground and also more expensive as it's more labour intensive). He said his machine will spike the ground and then wiggle when in the ground creating a good pocket to.... "get the weather into the ground". This treatment is ??100.
2. The products I buy off the shelf are not as good as his. His products are slow release and can't be bought by me.
3. It's very time and labour intensive for me to do what he is doing.
4. He will treat worm casts and other things he spots as he goes.
What do you think?
For me, my main concern is paying out this sort of money annually when it's perhaps something I can do myself.
I've looked on eBay and it has a "professional" moss product on there.
Your help and thoughts are appreciated as always guys.
Thanks
Hi Chris. Couple of things - is the back shadier than the front? It'll always be more work to keep it looking good if it's shady but that doesn't mean you can't have a decent bit of grass. How big is the area? A bit of aerating and weed and feed etc as Verd described already will keep most lawns looking smart.
It also depends on what you use the grass for, how much time you have and how much wear it will get - kids, dogs and so on, and how 'perfect' you want it to be. I'd wait till spring now to use moss killers and feeds but others may say different. I don't have any experience of chafers but someone else here will be able to advise on that. Feed every 9 weeks seems quite a lot to me
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Hi Chris, we have just moved into a new village, the lawns were ok but dull and patchy,luckily we have 2 patches of Comfry growing ,I watered 4 different parts of the lawn with 8 to 1 Comfry ,6 weeks and the lawns i watered grew completely different from the unwatered parts, they were bright strong and dark green , we have now all the lawn in good shape ,I haven't watered again but will in spring all Free,and then check for any other treatment,hope this helps.
Please could you advise me on what I should now be doing with my lawn in order to get a good green spread of grass? As mentioned previously, I have sandy soil and the front and back both have 1/3 of each that is in the shade due to hedges around the perimeter.
As there was moss winning the battle I forked it all and used Moss Killer (soluble iron FE 20%) on the whole area to kill the moss. I reseeded the bad areas and most of the brown has now gone.
What treatments and feeds would you suggest giving it now and over this year in order to get it looking good?
Thanks