The lawn is looking better, but rather stripey. I suspect the fertiliser spreader wasn’t spreading quite right.
Lawn improvements
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Lawn feed
It’s time to give the lawn an autumn feed. Hopefully this will help with the brownness of the lawn.
Lawn problems
The lawn isn’t looking so good now. Lots of dead grass.
First cut
First cut for the new lawn
Lush Lawn
The grass is doing well!
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- Closeup grass
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- A lush lawn
Lawn progression
The second half of the turf was delivered today, and Stuart completed the laying. It’s starting to feel like we have a garden now!
Turfs up
Finally the day has arrived to transform bare earth into lawn. The first half of the turf arrived today, and Stuart worked hard all day getting it laid down. Even incomplete, the transformation is clear.
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- The lawn to be
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- The turf arrived on a palette – this is about half the total turf we have ordered, the rest will come in the next few days
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- Turf rolls
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- Stuart hard at work laying our new lawn
Dandelion weeding
Our front lawn is rather infested with dandelions, which create rather unsightly patches which stand out because the dandelion leaf is lower than the thatch of the grass! Today we set about removing a lot, and filled a large trug in the process.
Dandelion weeding
Update – apparently a lot of are dandelions aren’t dandelions at all, but are in fact hawkweed (family Asteraceae), though they look quite similar and are equally unwelcome on our lawn!
Cutting Grass
Time to cut the grass for the first time this year. With hardly any grass now at the back (for now) it’s just the grass at the front and side to cut. These areas have more moss, dandelions and other weeds than grass, so I gave the grass a ‘close shave’. Still a good inch or two of thatch though… at some point we’ll need to start scarifying. A thorough scarification would probably leave us with very little grass, so that’s a project for some time in the future.
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- One strip cut
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- Freshly mown lawn
Update – I’ve since learned that the best thing for a moss infested lawn is not to cut the grass too short so the grass gets a chance to compete with the moss. We’ll also fertilize and add moss killer in coming weeks, so hopefully the grass will be a little healthier by year end.