Me here wrote:
"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
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Me here wrote:
"alan06" wrote in message
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Put moss killer on and raked the lawn. It has left quite a few
straw/dead grass patches. Will this grass grow back or will I need to
do something else with them?

Carefully dig out the area that's bare. Mix what you have dug out with
some
sharp sand 50-50 mix
Add a good quality of quality seed and put it back into the hole. Any
left
over will do for sowing in other bare areas.
Water well, don't walk on it until the new shoots are well established.

Not much point burying grass seed like that. Yes, certainly make a nice
tilth in the bare patches if they're big enough; but then just lightly
rake in the seed in the normal way.

Who mentioned burying?

My mistake: sorry. I thought you said add the seed to the new soil
before putting it back. Well, you did, actually, but I'm glad you
didn't mean it quite as I visualised it. It's a fair technique for
shallow patches, but where my mental image of "digging out" and "holes"
are involved it would be a waste.

If you just rake it over ad sprinkle in the seed all you'll achieve is an
easier feeding table for the local birds.

Well, gently raking in the seed is all I've ever done. Bought-in seed
does generally have a bird-repellent: I've no idea how well that works
in percentage terms, but in real-life terms it always seems to beat the
feathered friends. Pegging down a bit of fine netting is an insurance,
but I've only ever bothered when it was convenient -- and it doesn't
really seem to have made any difference.

--
Mike.