Wilko Weed & Feed has killed my grass

ukbill69

Hi, I applied a few weeks ago and rained and also made sure was all water in after a day. I come back off holiday to find most of my grass has died.

Could I have done something wrong or is this product no good. Not pleased.

baby_fuzz

our "lawn" has all died off after a weed & feed, although it was all the moss that had died off - we have raked it all off, and it is looking a bit bald, so we have put down some seed. The long dry spell and killer sun has also parched the lawn to a crisp as well - could you be suffering a similar problem (i.e. too much moss, and overly dry weather)?

[Deleted User]

same here, the new grass seeds didn't do very well because of the dry weather

annie123

ukbill69 wrote: »

Hi, I applied a few weeks ago and rained and also made sure was all water in after a day. I come back off holiday to find most of my grass has died.

Could I have done something wrong or is this product no good. Not pleased.

May not be the weed and feed, lawns don't like dry hot weather.

My lawn and the park at the bottom of it dies every summer and comes back when we get regular weekly rain. Grass is very robust stuff.

I don't use the stuff myself but I would have thought spring and autumn the best time to use it, unless you are one of the lawn waterer's.

Have a nosey at your local park, the council won't water the lawn so if it looks brown, its just the weather and your lawn will be back soon as the hot spell has finished.

If sowing seed for lawn, I would water it daily at the moment, I'm in the south east and had virtually no rain for weeks now, so we've all got dead lawns/parks in my area.

ukbill69

Im gonna give it a good water every night and see if it comes back. Looks so yellow and dead, hope it does come back.

Kay_Peel

I wouldn't worry about it so long as you've applied it correctly. Sometimes granular weed and feed products don't dissolve properly or the application hasn't been given sufficient water - in which case you have to keep watering it in and flooding the area.

It sounds to me like your lawn isn't dead but the product has done its job. It's a shock to see that it has done more weeding than feeding at this stage, and that your lawn looks nothing like the beautiful lawn shown on the box. I don't know anyone who has had a beautiful lawn after using any type of weed and feed.

You just have to live with the brown lawn and repair it by reseeding. The best time to apply it is in the early spring when Mother Nature can be given a whole season to grow what grass is left and any new grass coming through from seed.

I'd just keep raking off the dead thatch of weeds and grass to let some light, air and water in.

ukbill69

Thanks for your replies.

baby_fuzz

ukbill69 wrote: »

Im gonna give it a good water every night and see if it comes back. Looks so yellow and dead, hope it does come back.

Also, Set your mower on a higher setting, I usually leave the lawn to grow a little more wild in the really hot and dry months. In this case, I was caught out by a hot & dry few weeks.

WestonDave

I used their stuff earlier in the season and its fine - however I did end up with an almost care lawn because it is pretty effective at knocking out moss - my lawn was clearly more moss than grass. The front lawn which had more treatment and was then given some top up seeding is now fine (because its on the north of the house so hasn't been scorched) - the back which didn't get treated looks like something out of a Western movie - south facing and scorched silly by the heat. However grass is pretty resilient stuff - give it a week of rain (it will happen - the school holidays start in 21 days time!) and you'll be cursing the fact that its growing too fast and it never stops raining enough to get the mower out!

aloise

Same happened to me, did the back and front. The back is lovely but the front is nearly dead. Nothing i can do except wait until it improves. Won't use that again though

s4lvatore

I use mostly all wilko lawn and garden stuff and they are fine.

The problem a lot of people have when they use weed and feed, or infact even scarifiers is that they dont realise how much of their lovely green lawn is infact green weed and moss. Hance once they scarify or weed&feed their lawn looks bare.

A handful of scattered fertiliser, some seeds and a good watering sorts it all out.