How to repair a lawn

vexedprune

I have been lucky enough to move at the end of last year to a house with a garden. Lots of plans to grow my own in a small space (more posts on this later no doubt). The biggest thing is at the moment is the lawn. We live in an area where it is clay soil, it has been very wet over the winter and windy (I live next door to an airfield so it is pretty exposed). Currently the lawn is full of moss. I have bought some moss killer however I wondered if I doing it at the right time of year. I want to reseed so I have a prize winning lawn in the summer (to go with my prize winning veg :rotfl:). Seriously, it looks patchy and want it to look nice for any bbq's or such like. Another question I have is that the previous person had a motorbike that seemed to leak more oil than it held, I have patches on the lawn and where I want to grow my own, would it be better to dig these patches out.

Thanks in advance

Linda32

I will say that it is actually very hard to kill grass which is established and despite what it might look like now, yours is established. It does have powers to grow back.


It should say on the packet of moss killer instructions as to how to use and what time of year. I believe as you say treatment for lawns is seasonal.


There is nothing wrong with clay soil btw. Everywhere is water logged at the moment, but that's really nothing new for February anyway. If it wasn't rain then it would be snow or frost. It will recover.


It might be best to dig out the patches of oil I would have thought. Dig the patches out as a square. I believe this will help with future repairs of the lawn rather than digging a hole IYSWIM


It might take a couple of years to achieve a bowling green but I'm sure you will do so.


Just one other thing, it might be better to edit the title of your post to 'How to repair a lawn' or something along those lines. Hope you don't mind me saying.

vexedprune

Thanks for the advice, Linda. I have avoided the garden for the winter as the ground is sodden. Just looking for a nice green lawn more than anything. It's a rented house and the owner's children used it before and pretty bog standard, my child isn't as young and think it will be used more for sun bathing than football. I've never had a lawn before so would like to look after it, I like the idea of a green space just for us