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Lawn Newbie needs help
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Help please. Am living in NZ having moved from the UK but hopefully you can add some relevant advise. Grass is Grass! I've put some images at http://gedclink.fotopages.com/ Just moved into new house a while ago and eventually got around to addressing the lawn areas. I. After cutting back the lawn I can now clearly see about 40 patches of dead grass where the previous owner let their dog ( a bitch ) pee everywhere. Around these dead patches the grass appears to have gone mad( which I understand was due to the nitrogen in the p acting as a mild fertiliser) and I have posted a couple of pics. However, it doesn't appear to be normal grass ! It's very elongated, almost wiry and grows sideways over the holes left in the grass.. I didn't actually see the holes initially as I wasn't scalping the grass due to hot summers etc. Once I cut the grass back to a short level it was very obvious that a huge part of the lawn is infested with this " wild grass"? Long stalks that are almost woody with broad leaves coming off higher up. At the top there was small seeds. When I dethatched today, it brought up stalks from 3 to 6 inches long all over the place. It appeared large areas of the grass were made up of this long stemmed grass, not the nice stuff I initially thought. It lies down flat and generally appeared to grow from the edge of old dog p damage across the hole that was burnt into the grass. Given the scope of the problem I was keen to hear your thoughts and advice on wether I should kill off the grass towards the end of summer and re-seed or will I get good results working with what I have. Some of the photos will show the problem over a small area. This is magnified across the whole lawn. I am looking at Hydro turf which is seed sprayed onto the bare earth. Its held in a solution of wood fibre and fertiliser and apparently has a higher hit rate than normal seedin. Any thoughts on this as opposed to normal seeding. Cost sits between normal grass seed and readylawn. Thanks for any advice. Please ask anything you need from the photos. |
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