Hi everyone, I am new at this forum stuff so please be patient with me!
I have always had a lawn that I have cared for but have recently moved to a fairly large Garden of an acre and it hasn't had anything more than a cut for many years. The garden backs onto the Village meadow and is south facing but with Large trees surrounding boundry (which are beautiful) The lawn has several problems that I have not ever had to tackle before. The Grass seems shallow rooted, it has lots of Clover in it as well as moss It is very uneven in places having to be very careful with the Tractor mower when cutting the lawn in certain places. I also have Ground elder and bindweed in certain area's of the Lawn (as well as the Boarders of which I am trying to control0 The Lawn is such a massive area and I don't know when to start, and I suppose frightened of making a boob!!!
I try to not use Chemicals if I can help it except for the Ground Elder problem in the Boarders. Money is very tight . Can I feed it with Blood Fish and bone will that do any good? I want to thicken it up get rid of as many weeds as possible and have a healthy lawn I am not worried about having it perfect ! I suppose I should say that my wonderful Garden is in Bristol in the UK.

Many thanks in advance Deb

On Jul 3, 7:51*am, drtj1960
wrote:
Hi everyone, I am new at this forum stuff so please be patient with me!
I have always had a lawn that I have cared for but have recently moved
to a fairly large Garden of an acre and it hasn't had anything more
than a cut for many years. The garden backs onto the Village meadow and
is south facing but with Large trees surrounding boundry (which are
beautiful) The lawn has several problems that I have not ever had to
tackle before. The Grass seems shallow rooted, it has lots of Clover in
it as well as moss It is very uneven in places having to be very careful
with the Tractor mower when cutting the lawn in certain places. I also
have Ground elder and bindweed in certain area's of the Lawn (as well
as the Boarders of which I am trying to control0 The Lawn is such a
massive area and I don't know when to start, and I suppose frightened
of making a boob!!!
I try to not use Chemicals if I can help it except for the Ground Elder
problem in the Boarders. Money is very tight . Can I feed it with Blood
Fish and bone will that do any good? I want to thicken it up get rid of
as many weeds as possible and have a healthy lawn I am not worried about
having it perfect ! I suppose I should say that my wonderful Garden is
in Bristol in the UK.

Many thanks in advance Deb

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drtj1960

Many possibilities, depending on exacty what is there, how much work
you are willing to do uprfront vs over many years, etc.

First thing, I'd get the soil tested if possible and find out how much
decent topsoil you actually have. Adjust the PH if needed.

If the grass that is there is of a desirable type and there is enough
of it, then a program of weed control now, Fall aeration, fertilizing,
possuibly top-dressing, and over-seeding would be appropriated.

If the lawn is mostly weeds and crap grass (ie coarse, not great
color, disease prown, etc), then I'd wait till early Fall, kill it all
off with Roundup, then aerate and re-seed with a high quality grass
appropriate for the area.