moss on the lawn
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Hi,
Just moved house and the lawn looks very green but has a lot of moss.
How should I go about getting rid of it - having a quick peep in homebase etc all the lawn moss killing stuff says to do it from april.
can i do anything now eg rake it etc or am i best leaving it till april and just using some killer?
any rec which one if so?
thanks
Just moved house and the lawn looks very green but has a lot of moss.
How should I go about getting rid of it - having a quick peep in homebase etc all the lawn moss killing stuff says to do it from april.
can i do anything now eg rake it etc or am i best leaving it till april and just using some killer?
any rec which one if so?
thanks
Wait until spring, then apply one of the combined feed/weed/mosskiller products, preferably using a drop-spreader. Then wait for it to take effect, and when the moss has turned black and dried, then rake it out. Continue to feed your lawn once or twice more during the summer.
If you're planning to be really keen about your lawn then ultimately you want to work out why your lawn got overpowered by the moss. There must be something that is favouring the moss - work out what that is and fix it, and you'll never have moss again.
Off the top of my head, two things that spring to mind are shade and compaction. There's often not a lot you can do about the former, apart from sowing some shade-tolerant grass seed. For compaction, you might want to rent a hollow-tine aerator in September - and also rent a scarifier while you're at it.
If you're planning to be really keen about your lawn then ultimately you want to work out why your lawn got overpowered by the moss. There must be something that is favouring the moss - work out what that is and fix it, and you'll never have moss again.
Off the top of my head, two things that spring to mind are shade and compaction. There's often not a lot you can do about the former, apart from sowing some shade-tolerant grass seed. For compaction, you might want to rent a hollow-tine aerator in September - and also rent a scarifier while you're at it.
When the moss killer has got to work and you've scarified it all away...expect to think "oh my god, what have I done" ..if you have a lot of moss...you'll end up with a "lawn" that looks like a flat version of the Somme...with whispy bits of grass here and there ! You will need to re-seed. Once the seed has taken though, it'll look great.
petemurphy said:
anyone used greenthumb service my dad uses it says its £5 a month and they treat it 4 times a year? any good if so?
I use them, very good. No weeds and good grass. Unfortunately the lawn has just this month been attacked by leatherjackets so has been ruined. Greenthumb are going to sort it by treating it to kill the leatherjackets, then a lawn renovation - basically really deep scarify, aerate, reseed and top dress. Annoying as it was looking good till these leatherjackets decided to eat all the grass!OtherBusiness said:
petemurphy said:
anyone used greenthumb service my dad uses it says its £5 a month and they treat it 4 times a year? any good if so?
I use them, very good. No weeds and good grass. Unfortunately the lawn has just this month been attacked by leatherjackets so has been ruined. Greenthumb are going to sort it by treating it to kill the leatherjackets, then a lawn renovation - basically really deep scarify, aerate, reseed and top dress. Annoying as it was looking good till these leatherjackets decided to eat all the grass!OtherBusiness said:
Unfortunately not! £30 to get rid of the leatherjackets and then the lawn renovation is £200. Cheaper than getting it turfed of course, and saves me the hassle of doing it.
I thought so - they came around to my house and led with the "fiver a month" or whatever it was, but started on about all sorts of stuff that was getting completely out of hand. I got some stick from the missus - it's the NE facing front that's bad. I'm thinking of astroturf but someone will probably nick it!Basically the lawn just started dying, really quickly. Early Jan it was fine. 2 weeks later, large brown patches started appearing and then nothing left by the end of Jan. Mostly mud at the moment for half the lawn (as they spread). Few links below.
http://www.lawnsmith.co.uk/novice/pests-diseases-o...
http://www.rolawndirect.co.uk/turf_pest_and_diseas...
http://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/problems/lawn...
http://www.lawnsmith.co.uk/novice/pests-diseases-o...
http://www.rolawndirect.co.uk/turf_pest_and_diseas...
http://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/problems/lawn...
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