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Grass disaster
smillielouise
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Morning everyone,
I am new to this forum, so I apologise in advance. I am probably about to ask a very basic question or one that has possibly been asked many times already.
Due to a very busy work year in 2015, my garden was badly neglected. This year I am having a real struggle getting my grass in decent condition. I have treated with weed/feed/mosskiller. I have scarified in both directions twice and raked many times and I still have lots of thatch and moss there with very little healthy grass left behind.
At what point do you give up trying to repair what's there? And what other options might there be?
Thank you,
Louise
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Good morning Louise and welcome.
You've given your grass a right old pasting!!! No wonder it looks rough. I live in a very wet area and my grass didn't get it's first cut till Friday. It was a sea of yellow dandelions. It looked as if it has been chewed by a really big thing.
Today the Grass has straightened itself up, the squashed dandelions have righted themselves and I will go out and cut it again.
Do nothing more except cut it regularly for a couple of weeks and give it time to recover. Then you'll see what you're looking at.
You may have to re-seed baldy bits where the moss has died and some of the larger weeds may need retreated but little and often is the way to go with lawns. Don't scalp it away down yet either. Set your mower quite high and let the grass thicken up a bit. You might not have a bowling green this Summer but it will certainly improve enormously.
An idea of the difference regular mowing makes. If I let my front lawn go for two weeks it takes two hours to cut. If I do it every couple of days I can do it "sofa to sofa" in just over half an hour!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXOYpEZonqM
Dare to dream Lou!!!
if you mix some seed with a decent loam based compost (john Innes is good) and then spread over the surface of the lawn and brush it over you will get a quicker return to a decent lawn
We use weed and feed solution and then lightly resow grass seed almost every year as the garden is in quite deep shade and if we don't do it we end up with loads of moss and weeds and no grass and it's looking quite decent now.
I'm afraid a lawn is never ending hard work but I find quite easily repaired.
If only I could get rid of the bluebells in it but I just mow over them.
Louise have to agree with plant pauper here give it a rest. Let it recover for a few weeks, then if it needs attention do it then. Lawns are a labour of love, not though, a love I've ever hankered after.
Me neither Dave. In fact I dug my last one up. I don't have that option here so cutting it is! Damn good exercise too. I've just finished beheading some more dandelions and have mooched onto a new thread about moss in lawns. Never ending story.