iainahannah wrote:

the lawn is very patchy with straw coloured patches all over.
who can give me good solid advice to make my grass nice and
green

Is this the first time you've owned a lawn?

You want advice? How about this: Wait until spring.

And also - why are posting via gardenbanter? The banter servers are so
lame, and many are blocked/filtered on sight because they are used far
more often for spam.