On 23 Apr, 12:05, "pied piper" wrote:
"Will" wrote in message

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At great expense we have had our lawn returfed, it having been
destroyed by the builders last year. *It's looking pretty good, but
there are two problems.

1. *It has weird patches, mainly circular about a foot in diameter, of
much lusher, darker green grass. *When it was laid all the turves, so
far as I could tell, were identical. *The turf came from a very
reputable supplier. *Has anyone got any explanations?

2. *Boys and football. *I have sons aged 11 and 9 who regard the lawn
as a football pitch (can't really blame them) and they really want to
kick a ball about. *Just the two of them (they can play at the park if
their friends want to get involved) and mainly just practising their
skills. *Are they likely to do the lawn any harm? *There won't be any
tackling, or a goal area, and they play in ordinary trainers. *I'm
afraid I don't know the variety of the lawn - it was supplied by Teal
Turf (http://www.tealturf.co.uk/turf.htm) so it looks like dwarf
ryegrass.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

Will.

sounds like nitrogen rings a spring/summer feed will bring all the grass to
the same colour a bit of aeration would help to.
Re the football keep your grass at 2inches plus the longer the more hard
wearing it shall be. If u do have dwarf ryegrass this is very tough and will
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Thank you one and all.

Will.