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Damaged lawn - tumbleweed
First a rant - who is the wally that uses 'Tumbleweed' as a pen-name ?
It means that you can't search meaningfully on that. And now .... her-indoors has got out ! Mistake. She got hold of the Tumbleweed and didn't read the instructions. The lawn is about 300 sq m (nominally 30 m long by 10 wide) and has some 40 dead patches on it. What's the way to repair it please. Thanks Rob |
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oups.com... First a rant - who is the wally that uses 'Tumbleweed' as a pen-name ? It means that you can't search meaningfully on that. And now .... her-indoors has got out ! Mistake. She got hold of the Tumbleweed and didn't read the instructions. The lawn is about 300 sq m (nominally 30 m long by 10 wide) and has some 40 dead patches on it. What's the way to repair it please. An attempt to spot treat weeds, I guess? Well, the weeds will be dead but so is the grass. The good news is that tumbleweed doesn't persist in the soil, so the bare patches will support new growth. If the patches are small (less than about 10 centimetres across) I'd just leave them alone - the surrounding grass will spread back in to fill the gaps though this will take until next year sometime. The advantage here is that the gaps will be filled with the same grasses which make up the surrounding lawn so the 'repair' won't show. Larger gaps will need to be re-seeded. Remove the dead stuff, loosen the soil and bury the new seed a centimetre down so the birds don't eat it all . Do it now - September is a good time to sow grass. If you originally sowed the lawn, try to use seed as near as you can get to that which was used originally. Otherwise, the colour and texture of the patches may be different to the rest of the lawn, though this effect will fade in time. -- Neil Visit my Peak District walking website - www.peakwalking.co.uk |
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wrote in message oups.com... First a rant - who is the wally that uses 'Tumbleweed' as a pen-name ? It means that you can't search meaningfully on that. And now .... her-indoors has got out ! Mistake. She got hold of the Tumbleweed and didn't read the instructions. The lawn is about 300 sq m (nominally 30 m long by 10 wide) and has some 40 dead patches on it. What's the way to repair it please. The simplest way is just to leave it, the existing grass will spread in time, may take a while but it will work. Alan Thanks Rob |
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wrote in message oups.com... First a rant - who is the wally that uses 'Tumbleweed' as a pen-name ? It means that you can't search meaningfully on that. And now .... her-indoors has got out ! Mistake. She got hold of the Tumbleweed and didn't read the instructions. The lawn is about 300 sq m (nominally 30 m long by 10 wide) and has some 40 dead patches on it. What's the way to repair it please. Thanks Rob If you first enter Weedkiller in Google then enter tumbleweed to "search within results" you should have no problem - apart from your lawn, that is. Google is wonderful once you learn how to use it :-) Chris S |
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