New turf ruined? want to cry

[lentilbake]

I had my garden turfed few weeks ago, it was lovely, lush dark green but a bit long as i left it too long before the first cutting (comnibation of me being ill and severely allergic to grass cuttings, having little time with so many children and them having special needs and hospital appointments, the weather and my mower not working).

Got someone to do it, he came a day late when it was wet, and said as it was wet it had to be mown three times, there i hardly any grass left, its patchy, light yellowy green yesterday now large areas of brown :(

I rang him about it, he says he did a great job!

Is it done for?! The man who turfed it reckon evergreen it and it will be ok, 2 friend who do lots of gardening said it will grow again with all the rain we have buut it looks dead or nearly!

The money for the garden was given to me by someone very dear who has now died so this makes it even harder for me, and my grden made me and teh children very happy before:(

It will grow again

Evergreen it, and it will be OK.

Don't mow grass when it's wet.

It will grow again, when the utilities company ruined mine by digging mine up without telling me I managed to get it back into shape relatively quickly by feeding, seeding it & watering it.

Throw some seed down , with all this rain it will grow in no time.

Agree with the others. And you never ever mow a wet lawn.

Put some lawn fertiliser on it (i.e. not the weed and feed or moss killer type).

it might be a fungal disease caused by mowing when wet. See if it greens up. It will usually spread back, but you can scatter some seeds and brush them in well if it seems to be dead.

hi again, it looks much better but there are still brown patches and bald patches.

I put some miracle gro seed down which is "guaranteed to work in 5 days" but no growth yet and i cant see much left - I think the birds hve eaten it!

usualsuspect lol at "with all this rain" we had 2 short light showers coiple of days after it ahppened and none at all since! Have been watering it though

It will come back fine, it will! Grass s ver hard to kill, even if you try ;)

dh scalped the turf when our LL had it laid. we shat ourselves thinking we would have to pay to have new stuff put down.

it grew back fine.

i think turf is pumped with fertiliser as ours grows a million times faster than any of our neighbours lawns.

We re-seeded a patch recently and the DCs were scrutinising very closely exactly how long it took to grow. We watered it every day, it took 2 weeks to germinate, but within a week after that it was about 3" long and really lush, so maybe you'll have to wait a little longer

It sounds to me as if it will grow back. Give it a few more says and then rake out any dead bits. Once it's growing well, it'll spread to fill any bald bits.

The motto of this is don't mow a wet lawn.

It'll be fine Lentil; just a little patience will do the trick. If you are using that 'miracle' seed mixed in with some compost I use it to patch bald bits and it really does work but not in 5 days.

But I have to ask - if you are allergic to grass cuttings how on earth are you going to get your lawn mowed?

My lawn always looks like this if it has been left to grow too long before cutting, wet or dry. It always comes back.

It will be fine! Grass is very resilient. Throw some extra seed down and use Evergreen and with all this rain it will be back before you know it! :)