No time/energy to revitalise my lawn - can I just chuck some grass seed down?

[Tootingbec]

For the first time in my adult life I have a lawn. And what a pain in the arse lawns are!! It has some bald patches and I wanted to know if I can just chuck a load of grass seed down and hope for the best?

I’ve read up on what you are supposed to do but honestly I don’t have the time or energy to mess about with rotavators and horticultural netting 😵‍💫

I’m not fussed about the lawn looking perfect- it’s a weed filled moss ridden patch anyway. But the muddy gaps look awful.

Worth a try or waste of money as the seed won’t take without hours of faffing about?

I would get a weed and feed and spread over the whole lawn - it will kill your moss and weeds as well as fertilise the grass. If you can get some fine compost or soil and spread that over and spread grass seeds on and rake through that would more chance of working.

Follow instructions re watering in

Well first.kill off the weeds with weed and feed. Then buy grass seeds and sprinkle compost or topsoil over the patches tour filling. It's not that much faff

Thank you. So put some compost where the bald patches are and sow the seeds into that?

Yeah you can just over seed it, then keep on top of the cutting and the weeds will die back. Moss is good keeps it looking green

Yes you can either put seeds down and compost on top or compost first then seeds and then lightly rake

Just lightly break up the surface of the soil with a trowel or garden hand fork, sprinkle loads of grass seed down, and gently tread it flat. Use more grass seed than you think, because the birds will eat some of it.

The best time would be when it is dry but a few days' worth of rain is expected. Otherwise you will have to go out and water it.

You will need to keep off it for a week or two, so cut the remaining grass first. By the way, the more often you mow, the less work it is (you don't even need a grass box if you run the mower round every 2-3 days) and the weeds hate it. Most of them will die.