On Jun 24, 4:44*pm, Eggs Zachtly wrote:
A B said:

We relaid our lawn in April. *

What kind of turfgrass?

It's hopelessly overshadowed by tall conifers
(we're going to get them cut back this autumn

What kind of conifers? You do know that they don't grow like deciduous trees,
right? You can't prune them the same way. Other than cutting out the deadwood,
they don't really need pruning. If you "top" them, they'll look like a shrub
forever. Where you remove limbs, they won't grow back.

but didn't manage it last
autumn), but at least it had as good a soil as possible - large amount of
composted manure dug in, and a full dose of organic fertilizer pellets
(balanced). *

Please explain what a "full dose" is, as well as the specific "organic
fertilizer pellets".

I'd have said that that ought to last it for months before it
needed feeding again. *It was somebody else's idea to deg it with chemical
lawn fertilizer last week (some stuff called Aftercut, I forget the details
but pretty strong). *

It's not strong at all. It's 3-1-3 + 2% iron
It's basically a waste of money. You get an immediate greenup from the iron, but
the 3-1-3 is crap.

Well, it wasn't done evenly enough, and killed off
several patches of the lawn. *

I doubt that's what killed off the several patches of lawn. You can put that
crap out by hand. You'd have to have one helluva pile sit in one spot for quite
a while for it to do any damage.

What's the best way to proceed?

How often do you really need to feed lawns, anyway? *

Totally depends on what kind of grass, as well as your location.

Before it was relaid we
hardly ever used to get round to feeding ours, and the sunnier part thrived
for several years until it got very compacted.

LOL So, instead of dealing with the compaction by aerifying and top-dressing,
you replaced the lawn? When your car gets dirty, do you just go buy a new one?



Before the fertilizer incident, the new lawn was growing fine. *But it did
keep getting these squishy, flattened brown patches about six inches across,
for all the world as if somebody had ground it in with their foot. *Never
come across those before. *Can anyone explain?

Not without more information, and perhaps some photos posted online and linked
here.

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Agree with all of the above. Especially the part about the Aftercut
product most likely not being responsible. From the web, it's only
3-1-3, which you'd have to put down at one hell of a rate to get
enough nitrogen to burn the lawn. Are you sure that's what was used
and the only thing used?

It's also amazing how folks continue to ask for advice without stating
what kind of grass or where they are located.