My New Lawn

[jowwy]

From this

to this in just 4 weeks

 

[I like Skol]

Bit patchy there. Are you letting the dog piss on it?

 

[southcoast]

As Clapton would say “Let it grow”

 

[Beebo]

Good work with the grass seed.
I had mine turfed about 8 weeks ago. And it wont stop growing!
But it already has weeds growing in it. It seems to be an impossible job to keep it weed free.

 

[I like Skol]

Good work with the grass seed.
I had mine turfed about 8 weeks ago. And it wont stop growing!
But it already has weeds growing in it. It seems to be an impossible job to keep it weed free.

Turfed lawns do seem to come with resident weeds IME. Just keep plucking them individually by hand with a small trowel or probe to get the roots and after a month or two you should be rid of the incumbent ones and only have to be dealing with new invaders.

 

[jowwy]

Bit patchy there. Are you letting the dog piss on it?

New lawns are always patchy……and yes, its his garden so he pisses on it, but the patches are not from the dog…

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Turfed lawns do seem to come with resident weeds IME. Just keep plucking them individually by hand with a small trowel or probe to get the roots and after a month or two you should be rid of the incumbent ones and only have to be dealing with new invaders.

The only time I had turf put down it came complete with sheep s**t.

 

[gbb]

Regarding the weeds, and i start by saying I'm no gardener but our small lawn (20 x 30 ft) always suffered from waterlogging , poor quality soil i suspect, clay etc etc. I never had a good lawn, weeds and moss always took over, dandelions especially. One year i had it all re turfed, waste of time, i wasnt dealing with the root causes.
2 years ago i started weed and feeding it because the dandelions were infesting everything. It looked terrible for a year as they died off and left loads of bare patches but over the next year....i hardly have any weeds at all, the lawn is richer and greener than it ever has been.
Even my SIL visited and noted...oooh isnt your lawn lovely.

 

[T4tomo]

Not bad for a 1st growth from seed. It will always be patchy with dog piss, but hey its a lawn not your front room carpet

 

[jowwy]

Not bad for a 1st growth from seed. It will always be patchy with dog piss, but hey its a lawn not your front room carpet

ive never had a patchy lawn with dog piss....its always been lush and green and he pees all over it

 

[jowwy]

 

[T4tomo]

yes it grows back stronger - you have to train it to piss in different places every day, or complement it with your own nightime sprinkles under cover of darkness

 

[fossyant]

ive never had a patchy lawn with dog piss....its always been lush and green and he pees all over it

Female dog wee kills the grass, male the opposite.

 

[fossyant]

Oh and grass doesn't like oil spills. I've now got a few bald patches from my bloody son and his car 'fixing' - not too bothered about the lawn next to the drive, but why the hell he went in the back garden with oily parts. Might have to dig it out yet !

 

[gbb]

Most of my dogs that did pee on the lawn left dead brown patches, i always have a fence now.