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First a rant - who is the wally that uses 'Tumbleweed' as a pen-name ?
It means that you can't search meaningfully on that.

And now .... her-indoors has got out ! Mistake. She got hold of the
Tumbleweed and didn't read the instructions.

The lawn is about 300 sq m (nominally 30 m long by 10 wide) and has
some 40 dead patches on it. What's the way to repair it please.

An attempt to spot treat weeds, I guess? Well, the weeds will be dead but so
is the grass.

The good news is that tumbleweed doesn't persist in the soil, so the bare
patches will support new growth. If the patches are small (less than about
10 centimetres across) I'd just leave them alone - the surrounding grass
will spread back in to fill the gaps though this will take until next year
sometime. The advantage here is that the gaps will be filled with the same
grasses which make up the surrounding lawn so the 'repair' won't show.

Larger gaps will need to be re-seeded. Remove the dead stuff, loosen the
soil and bury the new seed a centimetre down so the birds don't eat it all .
Do it now - September is a good time to sow grass. If you originally sowed
the lawn, try to use seed as near as you can get to that which was used
originally. Otherwise, the colour and texture of the patches may be
different to the rest of the lawn, though this effect will fade in time.

--
Neil

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