New lawn in new build - help

Monkeybutt

All,

we have just moved into a new house which fortunately had the garden landcaped, problem is that the grass appears to be dying in brown patches, is there anything we should be doing to save it, should we be feeding it or anything else ?

As you may have guessed I am not blessed with the greenest of fingers

Many thanks in advance

Js_Other_Half

We had the same problem, and asked at a local garden centre for advice. They gave us a product that rescued the patches.
They told us if we wanted a garden we could grow things in to move house... (admittedly our development is a brown field site, and we can't even plant snowdrop or daffodil bulbs deep enough to grow)

shelly

Don't spend any money unless you really can't stand looking at it any more. The grass will grow back itself eventually. We had an extension done last year and nearly all our grass died due to things being laid on it for along time. Now though it looks really lush......pity we are digging it all up in the summer

Mental_Mentor

As its a new build its likely that the turf was not watered enough when it was first put down. When you water it it should look almost flooded and should splash on the surface. You should do this daily first. Hard work but free! y

Paul_the_Painter

New Lawns need water water water water, if you can't poke your finger through the turf, it's not wet enough. It's a real !!!!!! if your on a meter (as you will be) but having moved into 3 new builds with turfed laws, just absolutly saturating it daily, does the trick. Remember the turf has not rooted down at all yet so cannot draw water from the soil, so you have to supply all it's needs for the first few months.

Coveredinbees!!!!

The trouble with new houses is the garden may only have a tiny bit of top soil. Your best bet may be to dig the whole lot out get in a load of top soil and start again. I seeded a new lawn in my back garden in september and now it's green and lovely.

Nile

Hello Coveredinbees!!!!


Welcome to the MSE site.:wave:

Coveredinbees!!!!

Hi and thanks for the hello.


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reverie

Water, water, water! Invest in a hosepipe and sprinkler attachment and just leave it on all evening if it hasn't rained for more than a couple of hours that day. Try and do it now so it 'takes' before the hot weather, as it's much more of a stuggle to keep it alive then.

Coveredinbees!!!!

Just a note about watering, if you do it too much the roots will not go down and when you stop watering it will start dying again. The roots will go down 18 inches once established and find water down there. If you putting in a new lawn you can put in water gel tablets about 15 inches down to retain the water to keep your grass going in dry spells.