Lawn problems

[efiste2]

a couple of weeks ago i used a FEED&WEED product on my lawn and it worked a little too well and killed of a huge moss growth in the middle of the lawn. So I raked out the dead thatchy stuff, and forked a few holes around the patch and firstly used a repair product that had both seed and some brown particles, nothing at all has happened, I even have added extra seed, and watered it well in the evenings.....
Obviousley the TURF repair option is looming, but I am just wondering what I have done wrong, or missed out a major ingredient in the repair process.....



I have also used the same treatments on a very bare patch of lawn, again with not a "grain" of success...

 

[Deleted2797112]

You seem to have a lot of dead moss on the surface there - is the pic pre- or post raking out? If you seeded on top of that, I doubt it would work.

 

[kingandy2nd]

If it was only a couple of weeks ago, you're not likely to see much growth yet to be honest.

I used 4 day germination seeds in my patches, and although they germinated in that timeframe, growth to noticeable level took a few weeks to come about.

Be careful not to over water as well. Once a day to moisten the top soil should be sufficient

 

[efiste2]

thats post lawn raking.....my intention is to scarify the whole lawn next spring, but for the mean time im trying to make do and mend.....
Thanks for your advice chaps.....

 

[kingandy2nd]

No worries. You can scarify in autumn too.

Give it another week or so and then you'll start to see some tiny shoots appearing...on the assumption you haven't got chickens or one thing in your garden

 

[efiste2]

does the seed need any top soil or something, or is it best just literally laid on the surface like it is

 

[kingandy2nd]

The lawn repair stuff is a mixture of grass seed, soil, and brown bits that expand when wet (don't know their actual name). These second and third bits act as the 'soil' to give the seeds protection as they grow.

I haven't used the patch repair stuff myself, but I have made my own cocktail of grass seed and soil mixed in a bucket and then scattered on patches. The grass seed I had said to trample it down, but other than a light walk over it I did nothing other that to water daily the seed/soil mix.

It took 3 to 4 weeks to get a good coverage of new grass shoots, but it got there in the end.

Admittedly in other parts of the lawn were I had hollows and filled with a few inches of topsoil, then scattered seeds which I then raked into the soil before trampling, the grass grew a lot quicker - visible growth in about 9 days.

 

[xyz321]

If it was only a couple of weeks ago, you're not likely to see much growth yet to be honest.

I used 4 day germination seeds in my patches, and although they germinated in that timeframe, growth to noticeable level took a few weeks to come about.

Be careful not to over water as well. Once a day to moisten the top soil should be sufficient

sorry to butt in, which brand seeds did you use and how did you germinate the lawn seeds? ta