help on how to restore a lawn

mackers150

after a few years of neglect and a bad winter my lawn has been left with bare patches i hired a scarfire and got rid of moss and weeds and put fertiliser on it which has brought some life back to it could some1 help me on the best product to use to repair the bare patches?

gazza975526570

After ive scarified i always have to sow more grass seed.

My garden is in a lot of shade in parts due to high trees so i get a lot of moss.

Id just give a good water - try to rake the soil a little to help the seeds to settle, throw some seeds in and keep watering (use a fine rose so as not to throw the seeds around too much)

loucroft

Hi

I have the same issues as gazza... so have to reseed all the time.

I always refer to the guys at another forum, but I've put the link to the, in my opinion, very high quality advice on lawn seed.

We usually buy hurrells or premier grass seed, and will only pay between £55 - £90 for 20kg which can last us a year for the patches, to compare that with £490 to have it returfed the year before last, which still had to be reseeded the same year, it makes a huge different to the pocket!

Click through and click on 'lawns':

http://www.pitchcare.com/shop/grass-seeds/index.html


Never buy from homebase or b&q anymore, when you think they are major retailers that charge x2 - x2.5 more (in most cases, don't quote me obviously but work it out on £7.99 per 500g....

good luck

loucroft

i hope that was of some help anyway!

gamston

i have a simalar probelm with my lawn
this year i've put down shadey lawn seed, around the sides (got it off ebay) thats come up a treat
put lawn seed and topsoil round the rest of lawn but thats not done anything yet
think i need to do a lot of watering

loucroft

Loads of watering, morning and night if you can - get a sprinkler attachment for the hose, saves lots of time!!

It takes longer than what they tell you in most normal cases! I feel like an expert!!!