My attempt at getting a 'nice lawn' Diary

aj9648

Hi

Over the last few years I have neglected my garden - 2 young kids and other stuff does not help and it gets knocked down the priority list.

So I have decided to give some more time to it and have started my looking at the lawn, which is parched to say the least. So each week I will be posting a picture of what the state of my lawn is and what, if anything I have done.

I am no expert and have little gardening experience so I am looking at you good people to give me some hints and tips please....:)

So today I have 'fed' the lawn with some miracle gro soluble lawn food. The last picture I took this afternoon is below



Any tips and hints of next steps would be much appreciated. Next pic next Thursday

Thanks

wallbash

Aerate and water.

I_have_spoken

The time of year isn't ideal, but I'd resow the bare patches. Feeding is no good if there's not grass...

NB You don't say what time of day the picture was taken, but the lawn seems to be heavily shaded which won't help. Those two conifers on the left will also suck moisture out the ground - I'd consider getting rid.

aj9648

Picture was taken around 6pm. The garden is south facing so gets plenty of sun.

The bare patches were not there a few weeks ago - seem to have just died on me over the last few weeks of hot weather even though I have watered it plentiful

aj9648

forgot to post on Thursday......had a wet week so not been up to much with the lawn. Last friday I took upon wallbash's suggestions and hand aerated the lawn, just before the rain started on saturday and kept going till tuesday. I gave the lawn a trim as it was really long

I will look into borrowing a aerating machine and someone mentioned scaryfying which i need to look into - not sure what that does....

Latest pic below

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wallbash

mentioned scaryfying

Lets have a picture at ground level, I would want to know if you have 'thatch' or bare earth.

aj9648

Wallbash - thanks for your response - some pics below - I hope this is what you were after:

wallbash

So we have thatch.
You need to hire a machine to remove it. ..scaryfying
You have a lot and a reasonable size lawn and you want a nice lawn.

Raking to remove that amount is going to be tough, hire the machine. Get it done this month. Then reseed next month.

BUY the book, The lawn expert by Dr D.G. Hessayon

londonTiger

my neighbour has artificial grass in his garden. and it's in really bad nick. Looks like green carpet. LOL.