Garden patches - advice
Kashif Mehmood
Posts: 26
Hello,
I was needing some advice on any further action I need to take for the patches in my garden. I have attached 5 pictures below with titles, first 2 ones are from August (before any fix) and the last 3 are from Jan (current situation).
In late summer, I noticed that lots of birds were coming to my garden in the morning and having their breakfast. Also, the patches of grass in my garden were getting bigger, inspite of my best efforts.
I purchased this product from Amazon and applied it to my garden:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001HVZFX8?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00
After letting it work for a week or so, I then applied patch magic and also put new seeds in it.
There is clearly a lot of improvement but it has not recovered fully. Is there a risk that the patches will return or should I just wait for summer before taking any further action.
Many thanks in advance.
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Not really, no. It is all over the place, some near and others far from the rotary drier.
I wonder if it's the result of crane fly grubs eating the roots of the grass. When the birds visit the garden, are they rooting around in the grass looking for grubs?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Yeah, that is what it looks like. They have reduced significantly but still come (1 or 2 instead of 10 in summer).
Thanks.
Do you have a dog? The urine, from bitches especially, can scorch the grass. Was it dry weather when the patches first appeared ? if the lawn area was not well prepared there may be stones, rubble or even bits of concrete preventing the grass from growing well. There are also fungal diseases that can affect grass growth. I'm no lawn expert, so you'll have to wait for one to come along, but generally speaking making sure the drainage and aeration is good will give your grass a better chance
If you think it could be crane-fly larvae, you can get rid of them safely by applying nematodes https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=651
Good luck
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
No dog.
Best to wait and see as it does take grass a long time to recover after the grubs are dead and it can't grow much at this time of the year, but you may find that you need to apply another dose of those cranefly nematodes (which I also think are the culprit.) No point doing that until the soil warms up though.
Thank you very much.
Leather jacket damage, water in the nematodes.
Hi,
Is this the right product?
https://www.nematodesdirect.co.uk/nemaslug-slug-killer/8-nemaslug-slug-killer-small.html