My grass is dead

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My husband has killed the grass! He has sprinkled lawn food with moss killer over the whole lawn with a trough/weelie thing. He decided we had moss (we didn't). It looks an absolute mess, we've now got a brown and green checked lawn.

What can I do to revive it PLEASE. Notice I said 'I', he's not going near it again!!

I don't understand how a moss-killer would kill the grass too?

Try watering in some grass seed in the bare patches? Grass is pretty resilient stuff.

If he put it on at the proper rate it shouldn't have killed the grass, I've only managed that by spilling the bag . It's probably that you did have moss - it goes black and horrible from the mosskiller.

The best things to do is to rake it out - you can get (can probably hire?) a lawn scarifier if it's a big area, or just get a springy wire lawn rake and go over it by hand. You'll pull up loads of dead brown/black moss and dead bits of grass.

Thank you all. Maybe AMuminScotland is right and we did have moss. I will try re-seeding the bare patches, thanks meltedmarsbars, after raking out the moss. Thank you.

Re-seed the whole thing, not just the bare patches otherwise the patches that you thought looked okay will look bare when the lush green grass grows [voice of experience emoticon].

Rake it vigorously with a lawn rake, water well, sow your seed and rake in lightly. You'll have to keep it well watered at this time of year tho, which might be impossible without sprinkler, depending on your size of lawn - maybe best to wait for early autumn?

After raking all the moss out it will recover to a certain extent within a few weeks anyway. Gawd I'm becoming a lawn expert.