Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 Jun 03, 2010 2:29 pm I am also a Huge Fan of Fu Manchu . I did everything as suggested by him, but had to take few shortcuts couldn't convince DH to bring in certified organic soil. We rotary hoed and put 170mm of Lawn mix and laid Sir Walter lawn 6 weeks ago. We had to finish it before our fencing was done to save on $. But our fencing people messed up some parts of our lawn with cement and now we have to fix. Yesterday I saw some moss and some fungus cotton like developing on it. Please give me some remedy. Thanks in advance. Re: Help !! My newly laid lawn has moss and fungus 2Jun 05, 2010 1:42 am Take a picture on your phone camera, or grab a direct sample into an envelope.Get to the garden centre and talk to the expert. You certainly dont want the areas to spread into the good lawn Re: Help !! My newly laid lawn has moss and fungus 3Jun 08, 2010 11:32 am Thanks for your reply. After the rainfall on Saturday, I don't see so much of that cotton like fungus, I used Seasol and planning to use some molasses on it today. Lets see how it goes Re: Help !! My newly laid lawn has moss and fungus 4Jun 14, 2010 12:28 am and hence why I use and recommend organic soils. Lawn mixes are often loaded with nitrogen so you get all loved up at how good a job you did as the lawn grows at lightning pace all green and s%#t. So then the wheels fall off after the spurt and you get the problems starting. So enter the revolving door of go nowhere garden advice and a wallet fulkl of moths. The treatments create further issues and you struggle to overcome them in years ahead. I see it all the time day in day out. Feed the soil. Use molasses, use seasol, powerfeed as well. Any liquid compost really. The eco range of products are also good like eco aminoacid. or was it called aminogro? Yeah aminogro that was it The nitrogen will leach from the soil eventually and you want lots of healthy things growing there. Use nasty fungicides but the cause of the problem will still be there and they aren't that flash for your health either. Often there can be high levels of stinky chook poo in them. When choosing a good soil, it shouldn't have an offensive smell to it As for the lawn, leave it, see it out. It will look crap, get dead patches and struggle to recover. But when it does it will be better than ever Keep it simple and all will be well Where are you located because that helps too Re: Help !! My newly laid lawn has moss and fungus 5Jun 15, 2010 7:56 pm Over watering of lawns can be a cause of diseases etc. Re: Help !! My newly laid lawn has moss and fungus 6Jun 16, 2010 12:07 pm ooo now there's a point Yep without moisture in abundance sometimes, that stuff can't grow there hey cheers for that mystery new member Re: Help !! My newly laid lawn has moss and fungus 7Jun 16, 2010 4:30 pm Yay !!Fu Manchu replied to my post Thanks for your long posts, it has helped us immensely. After using molasses, Seasol and Powerfeed on the lawn, I just left it to recover. Lets hope it comes out nicely by spring. We also have our front and back landscaping to finish. We are in Point cook and DH is in India at the moment, will ask for plant suggestions once he returns. Thanks again for your help. Re: Help !! My newly laid lawn has moss and fungus 8Jun 16, 2010 10:50 pm Why wouldn't I respond? Your lawn will look like poo but bare with it and keep going with the methods you have used. I would be inclined right now to stick to the molasses and look at applying some Olsens Green Bio. There is some stuff just like it out called Bactivate. http://bioasis.com.au/ Try that as well and it might be easier to get than the Olsens going on the consistent feed back on peoples adventures trying. I reckon these two are the same thing but I am sure each would have sales reps pointing out the differences. I have seen a few common links between them though The unit normally clips into a metal plate screwed to the wall, either plate is not flush, or unit not hooked in and could be hanging from the pipes partly, either might… 2 15787 I had new concrete laid, extended the alfresco and had the sidewalks concreted too. I noticed the concreter didn't put the expansion foam anywhere, there are expansion… 0 8117 the leaves that are now underground go yellow, the tips that poke through photosynthesise and have chlorophyll, same reason they grow rhubarb in the dark. 5 4861 |