Hi,
We recently moved in to a new house. The entire lawn came from a local sod
farm. Now that the snow has melted I notice alot of brown, dead blades of
grass in with the good green grass. I thought this was thatch and it could
be thatched out, however after researching this and other newsgroups it seem
that thatch is stuff beneath the grass on the surface of the soil. It
almost seems that the lawn is dying. This brown grass isn't in one spot it
is through the entire lawn.
Any suggestions on how I should proceed? I purchased a coring aerator and a
dethatcher to pull behind my lawn tractor. Unfortunately my new tractor
hasn't been delivered yet.
Thanks for your time,
Jeff

"Jeff Guay" wrote:
Hi,
We recently moved in to a new house. The entire lawn came from a local
sod farm. Now that the snow has melted I notice alot of brown, dead
blades of grass in with the good green grass. I thought this was thatch
and it could be thatched out, however after researching this and other
newsgroups it seem that thatch is stuff beneath the grass on the surface
of the soil. It almost seems that the lawn is dying. This brown grass
isn't in one spot it is through the entire lawn.
Any suggestions on how I should proceed? I purchased a coring aerator
and a dethatcher to pull behind my lawn tractor. Unfortunately my new
tractor hasn't been delivered yet.
Thanks for your time,
Jeff

Do the dying areas pull up from the soil easily? (grubs)

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No. Its hard to explain, the brown grass isn't in patches, its intermixed
with the nice green grass. Kind of a "salt and pepper" type thing. Right
now there is more green than brown, I'm just worried that it will go the
other way.
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"Jeff Guay" wrote:
Hi,
We recently moved in to a new house. The entire lawn came from a local
sod farm. Now that the snow has melted I notice alot of brown, dead
blades of grass in with the good green grass. I thought this was thatch
and it could be thatched out, however after researching this and other
newsgroups it seem that thatch is stuff beneath the grass on the surface
of the soil. It almost seems that the lawn is dying. This brown grass
isn't in one spot it is through the entire lawn.
Any suggestions on how I should proceed? I purchased a coring aerator
and a dethatcher to pull behind my lawn tractor. Unfortunately my new
tractor hasn't been delivered yet.
Thanks for your time,
Jeff

Do the dying areas pull up from the soil easily? (grubs)

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"Jeff Guay" wrote:
No. Its hard to explain, the brown grass isn't in patches, its
intermixed with the nice green grass. Kind of a "salt and pepper" type
thing. Right now there is more green than brown, I'm just worried that
it will go the other way.
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...
"Jeff Guay" wrote:
Hi,
We recently moved in to a new house. The entire lawn came from a
local sod farm. Now that the snow has melted I notice alot of brown,
dead blades of grass in with the good green grass. I thought this
was thatch and it could be thatched out, however after researching
this and other newsgroups it seem that thatch is stuff beneath the
grass on the surface of the soil. It almost seems that the lawn is
dying. This brown grass isn't in one spot it is through the entire
lawn. Any suggestions on how I should proceed? I purchased a coring
aerator and a dethatcher to pull behind my lawn tractor.
Unfortunately my new tractor hasn't been delivered yet.
Thanks for your time,
Jeff

Do the dying areas pull up from the soil easily? (grubs)

It may be a surface insect like chinch bug or even billbug.

Try a fertilizer with insect conrol combo.

...only guessing here.

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"Jeff Guay" wrote in message
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Hi,
We recently moved in to a new house. The entire lawn came from a local
sod
farm. Now that the snow has melted I notice alot of brown, dead blades of
grass in with the good green grass. I thought this was thatch and it
could
be thatched out, however after researching this and other newsgroups it
seem
that thatch is stuff beneath the grass on the surface of the soil. It
almost seems that the lawn is dying. This brown grass isn't in one spot
it
is through the entire lawn.
Any suggestions on how I should proceed? I purchased a coring aerator and
a
dethatcher to pull behind my lawn tractor. Unfortunately my new tractor
hasn't been delivered yet.
Thanks for your time,
Jeff



Sounds perfectly normal to me. The dead grass from last year will decompose
and help fertilize the new growth so I wouldn't try to get rid of it.

New lawns will often take a little bit longer to get going in the spring
'cause they don't have the root system developed yet. Give it time.

Peter H