Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 Apr 23, 2020 5:35 pm Hi! We moved into a new place a couple of months back. Unfortunately the lawn grew too long and got overgrown because we didn’t have a mower at the start. We cut the grass and the patch that was longest turned yellow. Then on the second mow the other part that was green started doing the same. I’m thinking we mowed it too short and now it’s only the yellow parts underneath that are visible. My partner used the highest setting on the mower but then did a second run on the next lower setting on both occasions. If this is the case what can I do to try to fix it so it goes back to green again? Any ideas? I have started deep watering it in sections each day. How long do you think it might take to recover given that it is August now and getting cooler. Thanks for your help! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Help fixing my lawn [emoji20] 2Apr 23, 2020 5:52 pm Cait33 Hi! We moved into a new place a couple of months back. Unfortunately the lawn grew too long and got overgrown because we didn’t have a mower at the start. We cut the grass and the patch that was longest turned yellow. Then on the second mow the other part that was green started doing the same. I’m thinking we mowed it too short and now it’s only the yellow parts underneath that are visible. My partner used the highest setting on the mower but then did a second run on the next lower setting on both occasions. If this is the case what can I do to try to fix it so it goes back to green again? Any ideas? I have started deep watering it in sections each day. How long do you think it might take to recover given that it is August now and getting cooler. Thanks for your help! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ I learnt the hard way! I thought it was giving my lawn the love it needed by watering all through summer, and it hated me for it. I would suggest aeration, some seasol for lawns, and then in a few weeks time some granular fertiliser (in the amount stated on the pack- no more or you’ll burn it and can go even more yellow) to slow release for the next three months. Come spring August or early September, closely monitor it and make sure you’re not getting any dead sections - if so, down with the acelepryn for lawn grubs. It could simply be that you let it grow so long that the sunlight couldn’t get to the lower parts of the shaft and so you’re left with that. Particularly if you’re saying you mowed on the highest setting, I can’t see how that would be the cause. Good luck! M Y C U S T O M C O R A L B R O N T E 43 ...............Kitchen! 16 Nov 2016 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=79581 Re: Help fixing my lawn :( 3Apr 23, 2020 6:28 pm Hi MrsJM, Thanks for the response Oh maybe I didn’t explain properly because I have to hand water with a hose I am sectioning the lawn of into quarters and watering only one quarter section a day so that I can get enough time in to do the deep watering. So basically as I rotate through the week I am deep watering the lawn about twice a week. I only started doing this after the problem occurred. I’m only watering in the early morning too. Do you think this routine would be ok? I tested the soil and it is 6.5 so good. Aeration was my next thing I was going to try this weekend. It’s good to hear you say to use seasol because I was wondering if that would be helpful too. I read iron chelate would be good to use? I was cautious about fertilising that this time of the year (Autumn) and I read somewhere it’s not a good idea to fertilise a lawn if it has been scalped and is recovering? Which I think is what is happening when I look at it up close. Does anyone know if this is true? I'll look into different shower heads and ask the plumber about some engineering and see what he says. Thanks 2 9578 Plumbers 'can be' plumbers, made all the worse by self certification which the building surveyor invariably accepts as proof of compliance! The good thing is that you know know. 3 4873 DIY, Home Maintenance & Repair This is a very challenging situation, made much harder by not being on site. Firstly, I think that I originally… 10 8992 |